And the Rain Begins

The pool was turning green so the first order of the day was to clean again for the second time in 4 days. I think this was brought on by the very heavy thunderstorms that have been taking place every afternoon. Apparently, we had also forgotten that we needed to check the “hair basket” weekly, which is basically another type of skimmer inside the pump house that catches additional….well…..hair…..and stuff. So we got in there, figured out how to do that and yes, it was full of hair…..and stuff. Then I went on to clean the pool while Jim skimmed it which took over an hour due to the large amount of sediment on the bottom. We added 12 scoops of salt which, due to the high humidity in the pump house, had clumped together and it was more like throwing 12 salt bombs into the pool. Lastly, we added the recommended algaecide to kill the algae as well as some other stuff to help clear the water. So finally, it was as clean and chemically balanced as it could be so we headed back in to have a quick lunch before I was going to head into town to run multiple errands. And that’s when it started raining. Again. This was classic - it started with lightening and thunder, then high winds and it was HERE. So much for a trip into town - I wasn’t about to head out in this kind of weather. Even the biologist who was here from the University of Nebraska was doubtful whether his group could get out to do their field work with this kind of weather.

So we settled into the Manager’s Cabin for another wet and dreary afternoon and figured well, we’ll just get online and take care of some things. We booted up the computer only to find out that we had apparently used up all the megabytes or whatever is on the plan for the air card. A call to the friendly folks at AT&T confirmed that the movie we watched through streaming Netflix apparently used up a ton of bytes, or whatever. Hmmm…..we sure didn‘t recall hearing anything about a limit on the amount of time we could be online. So we called the owner and they are working on a solution to either increase the plan or look into wifi through some other provider, but for the meantime we only have limited internet access until 8/1 when the new month’s allotment of megabytes or whatever kicks in. Fun stuff.

We settled in to watch “Airplane” one of the preloaded movies we have on the Mac, and one of our favorites. About an hour into the movie, one of the gals staying in the Family Cabana knocks on the door to say they’ve gotten their Jeep tire stuck in a rut in the gravel driveway as they were trying to head out to get something to eat and did we have any ideas on how they could get out? Pause the movie…….we found an old piece of wood and headed over to their car, in the rain, to see what we could do. Yes, indeed, the left rear tire was certainly stuck in a rut, but then, haven‘t we all be in that position at some time or another? So, we dug down, wedged the piece of wood in place and even had the guys from the Casa Nueva trying to help us. Nothing. It just spun and spun and burned up the rubber. As the four of us were in front pushing, I could just picture the truck rolling forward and pinning us all into the barbed wire fence that was behind us. Ah, good times for sure!! Clearly, this vehicle wasn’t going anywhere this afternoon. So, we headed back to the Manager’s Cabin and took our second shower of the day before returning to the movie. Phew!! What a day!!