What a day!

Alli, Boy Wonder and I hit the rental place this morning to get the pump to empty the pool. It was a big pump! BW and the rental place guy loaded it and two huge hoses into the back of the van. We came home and Alli and BW got right to the pumping. It moved fast...almost too fast. The water quickly ran down the hill and flooded part of the neighbor's yard. We moved the discharge hose around the yard as each part got saturated with green, slimy, smelly water. Of course, no matter where we directed the hose, gravity took the water right down the hill to the same neighbor's house. Let's just say the neighbors aren't our biggest fans right now.


While Alli and BW did the bulk of the pumping work. I did all the running. I feel like I spent most of the day in the van.

~ Drove to rental place to get pump.
~ Back home to drop off Alli, BW, and the pump
~ To gas station to buy gas for pump
~ Back home because I discovered there was old, wrong-grade gas in our gas can
~ Back to gas station after (illegally, no doubt) disposing of old gas
~ Back home
~ To pizza store to pick up lunch for all
~ Back home
~ To local coffee house for Beth to apply for a job
~ To dollar store for cleaning supplies for pool
~ Home only to discover we needed more cleaning supplies
~ Back to dollar store
~ Back home
~ To Wal-Mart to buy a little, fun gift for neighbors with 3 inches of our pool water standing in their yard
~ To friend's house to borrow rakes to remove mucky leaves from bottom of pool
~ To Cori's school to drop her off for prom
~ To nephew's friend's house to pick him up from a birthday party
~ Back home to collapse!

All that with gas at $3.55 a gallon!