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Oh the trials and tribulations of the opposite sex! :wah:

flopstock wrote: Come here ... I'll tribulate you!:sneaky:


I'm your huckleberry!

Don't even consider buying her a bike unless you already have a contractor in mind to put it together!!

flopstock wrote: Hey! I'll have you know I got her a kick stand and put it on. Piece of cake! It doesn't go up and down, but it is on!:D


Up and down? Piece of cake? Put it on? Hmmmmm I totaly forgot what I was going to post! :rolleyes:

flopstock wrote: I pulled the pool out of the shed over a week ago. We laid it out in different parts of the yard to see where we liked it best this year (what can i tell ya, it entertained the 7 year old for a couple of days while i tried to figure out how to make the air compressor work to blow up the ring around the top)..:wah:



So her dad comes to get her thursday and I ask him to blow it up for us so that i can fill it while she's with him. I drag the 15ft round, 2 1/2 ft deep monstrosity to 'our' chosen location and after they leave i put the hose in and turn it on. I then wandered back into the house, where i played in the arcade for a couple of hours while it filled. When I went out to check it before bed I noticed that there was only about two inches of water in it.



After studying this for a few minutes, i deduced that perhaps it would have worked better if I had closed the drain plug in the bottom of it, before attempting to fill it. :rolleyes: So at 2 a.m. I am out in my back yard dragging that pool to somewhere that the ground beneath and surrounding it is not waterlogged. I decide I will just wait and give it another shot friday after work.



It went much better the second time... except.. did you know that you are supposed to attach the hoses for the filter, before you try to fill the pool? Me either.. So the pool got filled about half way before the water started pouring out the holes for the filter hose.. a partial success, in my humble opinion.



Got the filter connected and finished filling the damned thing tonight. Only it isn't exactly circular. And the water seems to be making the sides heave to the right..which is okay by me. The water is staying in now and I am sure I can buy an extention cord to hook the filter up...(next year I'll think of that when I'm laying it out, I'm sure!)



And did it matter a bit that when she returned home, she announced that gramma and grampa had put up a big pool that you have to climb a ladder to get into? Not a bit. No sir, I didn't for one moment have the urge to run up the and stick a knife in the side of their brand new pool.



I didn't, I swear!:p


I hear you flop, we bought one of those pools for our granddaughter 6 years ago. I didn't have an electric air pump, so I tried to fill the ring with a bike tire air pump. Big mistake, so after about 2 hours (I'm stubborn) hardley any noticable air in the ring, I finally broke down, & went to buy an electric air pump. Then we set it up on what looked to be flat level ground. We have an Artesian Well, so we could not get the 2000 gallons of water needed to fill the pool from there. So we had a "pool water tanker" truck come & deliver the water. Well when the pool was about 3/4's full, we found out that what we thought where the ground level, actually was not so level, & the side of the pool leaned over & gave way. Letting about 1500 gallons of water out all at once, flooding our back yard. After recomposing my embassased self, we set that ##$%^&* pool up in another location. Luckily the tanker held 5000 gallons of pool water, so we were able to give it another try. This time success, and our granddaughter loved it! And for the next 4 years we were now experienced pool setter uppers so we had no problems, & our granddaughter enjoyed that pool, & so did I. About two years ago, we stopped putting it up as She out grew it. But also now, not to mention, she goes to her Aunt's new "in-ground" pool!

By the way flop, be sure to connect your filter's "electrical" plug into a "Ground Fault Interrupter (GFI) electrical outlet"! (To prevent possible electrical shocks)

I tried one of those pools 2 years ago, and didn't have much success with it either. By now, my kids are too big to want to go in the pool. But I did! But it was very difficult to find the right spot, level it out, yadda yadda. We are going to take it to pool heaven this summer as I clean out the backyard, and I will just dream of sitting on a nice beach instead.:-6

gande06 wrote: Up and down? Piece of cake? Put it on? Hmmmmm I totaly forgot what I was going to post! :rolleyes:
Oh will you two please go get a room??!!?!?!!!!?? :yh_rotfl

(Preferably in a hotel with a pool.) :p

BabyRider wrote: Oh will you two please go get a room??!!?!?!!!!?? :yh_rotfl

(Preferably in a hotel with a pool.) :p


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