Small Summer Moments
iPod & iPhone (365 x 205 playback, 480 x 270 download size) [2:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1061) AppleTV (960 x 540) [2:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (869)More little things for Ru and all my pals who find the Arizona monsoon / oven season exotic. Yesterday was a beautiful day!
Aside: Before you think we’re heathens, we’re draining our pool because we’ve been unable to de-cloud the water this season even though the pool chemistry numbers were right where they were supposed to be. We think a neighbor may have been throwing stuff into it but we don’t know. In any case it’s been 5 years without a major water change. So this is going to cost us a bunch to replace all that water. Before we do it we’ll power wash the surface, patch it up and repaint it. We’ve watered all our trees and shrubs, plus those of our neighbors, with the water we’ve pumped out. It developed algae during the draining because we stopped chlorinating when we started pumping water out.
July 12th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I’m still getting over the shock that it can reach 120˚! I presume water is the precious commodity out there, thus the large expense of a pool fill. Is there a local communal pool where you can swim? Or maybe a communal fridge you can sit in all day. And keep your eye on the neighbour!
July 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Yes, water is very precious and getting more expensive all the time. Perhaps it would be less so if people started realizing grass doesn’t do well here and gave up their lawns and golf courses. Oh, and their non-native water hungry plants. And their swimming pools. We didn’t want a pool, but we got a very good deal on our house even though it had one. So now we have a pool. I admit it’s utterly wonderful in the summer. But it’s a year-round pain and I wouldn’t mind seeing it filled with dirt, except getting rid of it properly is just about as expensive as having it installed in the first place.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Nice moments, lovely detail with birds!
July 15th, 2008 at 6:51 am
How about opening a skate park to help pay for improvements? Love the video and the music. Chillaxin.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Amy misheard us and now thinks that if she doesn’t put on suntan lotion, the sun will make her burst. I think if I lived in this kind of heat, that’s what’d happen to me.
We also got a pool with our house. It turned green a few weeks ago. My heart sank, but luckily it responded to being nuked with chlorine.
Water. Money. Huh. As my great grandfather used to tell his children: if you waste water, you’ll waste money. They took him at his word: when he died they gambled and drank away his fortune and the big family construction business.
I now live in a place where between October and February we get about a metre of rain (which is why I want a waterproof Xacti) but today they issued a water shortage notice, which means that we are not allowed to fill pools, hot tubs, water lawns, etc. And they’re going to be installing water meters. Turns out the dam on the reservoir was ’sabotaged’ last week. It was just a small wooden dam, held together by bolts. Someone carefully dismantled it and a lot of water escaped. So now they’ve got a stronger case for installing water meters. So that they can charge a lot more money for water. It’s like Chinatown here. But without Jake Gittes.
ANYWAY… Lovely details here. What’s the music?
July 16th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Ru, I forgot to credit the music, but the song is called “Tear Drop” and it’s by Santo & Johnny. It’s an oldie. I found it years ago on the Usenet group alt.binaries.mp3.78rpm-era or something like that.