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[John McLaughlin]

Jim
The Viking Venus will be our home the whole time. We will be taking excursions in each port we visit

 

[Thermobrett]

Curious. Where do you buy your salt?

I buy my salt from the pool store or Home Depot / Lowes if the pool store is out (roughly $8-$9 a bag). During hurricane season shipments became scarce so I went to Home Depot and was able to find the 40lb bags there. Make sure its pool salt and not water softener salt, there is a difference. You should only need to add salt to your pool if you have to remove water mainly if you have ALOT of rain. I was draining a couple hundred gallons every couple of hours as my pool does not have a overflow in the skimmer. The salt won't break down as it stays suspended. If you need to add salt, the light on your chlorinator will light up low indicating your PPM is out of range.

 

[buckbuck]

@BigN8 I also live in North Texas and if you have an Attwoods nearby you will find them with the best price. They also have Acid very reasonable.
What @Thermobrett has said about salt consumption is what everyone has told me but my experience is I have to add about 8 bags every spring. I don't know why I am so different. If you scroll to diagnostics- chlorinator on your control unit you can see where your levels are.

 

[BigN8]

My app gives me constant updates. I would assume this is what is being reported from the chlorinator.

 

[Thermobrett]

My app gives me constant updates. I would assume this is what is being reported from the chlorinator.

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Looks like it. My pool was put in back in 2012, when most things were still analog lol. I just have a kid that jumps in and says the waters cold

 

[zipper]

My day off from work, lol. Been on the list for a few years. Always had other things of higher priority higher up on the list. Boat stuff. But I promised my wife I would move it up, when the right day came along. I was aiming for a no wind day and they were correct on their prediction. One side up and one to go in the near future. One piece of 6 mil. 105’ x 40’ locked down. 65degs. today, the wind did gust a few times when it mixed with our sub freezing temps from last night. I just held on. Wife helped from the ground.











Side roll up and ridge roll up done. Covered garden space 100×30. It used to be our lambing barn 20 years ago. This project will need me to run the sawmill to make new endwalls.

 

[BigN8]

I made this card table from repurposed pallet wood. With the new backyard features and the great weather lately we’ve been putting it to good use eating dinners out here and playing card games.

 

[Thermobrett]

My day off from work, lol. Been on the list for a few years. Always had other things of higher priority higher up on the list. Boat stuff. But I promised my wife I would move it up, when the right day came along. I was aiming for a no wind day and they were correct on their prediction. One side up and one to go in the near future. One piece of 4 mil. 105’ x 40’ locked down. 65degs. today, the wind did gust a few times when it mixed with our sub freezing temps from last night. I just held on. Wife helped from the ground.

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Side roll up and ridge roll up done.

I like that your priorities lie with boat stuff LOL

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

So far about an inch of snow has fallen today.. another 1-2” is forecasted for tonight.. but that is not going to be near enough to bring the water up to the concrete on the ramp.. in my opinion based on my observations of the last several years the bureau of reclamation let out too much water in the fall.



Looks like “they” brought in dirt /gravel and made a ramp to the end of the ramp, there used to be a 4” drop off of the end of the concrete, several folks were out on the lake and had launched from this north ramp. There were six trucks and boat trailers up in the parking lot… C’mon late season snow and rain storms!

 

[suke]

So far about an inch of snow has fallen today.. another 1-2” is forecasted for tonight.. but that is not going to be near enough to bring the water up to the concrete on the ramp.. in my opinion based on my observations of the last several years the bureau of reclamation let out too much water in the fall.

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Looks like “they” brought in dirt /gravel and made a ramp to the end of the ramp, there used to be a 4” drop off of the end of the concrete, several folks were out on the lake and had launched from this north ramp. There were six trucks and boat trailers up in the parking lot… C’mon late season snow and rain storms!

Yikes with the snow still. It'll be near 90* here this weekend and has already been close to that a time or two. It dipped down into the 60s-70s for highs this week. Our last real freeze was weeks and weeks ago.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Yikes with the snow still. It'll be near 90* here this weekend and has already been close to that a time or two. It dipped down into the 60s-70s for highs this week. Our last real freeze was weeks and weeks ago.

I think we have had 3 false springs so far… Yesterday it felt hot at 68*.. to day the high was maybe 32*… tonight it will be 24* and tomorrow night it will be 19*. I moved more firewood over to the house and split three wheel barrows full of kindling… today I’ve had a fire all day.. all night tonight and again tomorrow. After that I’ll be back to having fires in the morning, a great way to start the day.

 

[zipper]

I am ready for warm sunny weather here, @FSH 210 Sport can have our snow, although it melted yesterday, but this was from the store Wednesday...



And at elevation yesterday morning. 70’s tomorrow.