We've been trying for a week to get our son's pool pumped out and ready for Memorial Day. This is a family effort. My son decided to buy a pump this year, so he and Ken go shopping. They found the ultimate tool store, hey, it's a "Toys R Us" for the big boys and me and my daughter in love call it "Tools R Us"

So they enter the tools wonderland with "ahhhhhhh's" and drools and leave excited, with their new little pump. Home, it comes out of the box and we all are there, ready to watch the miraculous sucking down of the water in the pool. It's working, then IT'S NOT! After a few days trying to keep it running....sighhhhhhh, it's overheating. This pump came with an extra spark plug, which immediately made me leery!!!!!! They changed the plug out. They finally get it started for a little bit and screws start vibrating out of it all over the cool deck. Ken and daughter in love take it back (Tuesday). They go to exchange it, but they don't have the receipt, and the manager talks about how much trouble it'll be to exchange without the receipt and Ken heads to the little boy's room. When he comes out the manager is finishing the transaction.....geeee, my daughter in love has charm. And with the transaction, she managed to get a BIGGER pump and 2 year warranty!

The excitement grows!!!!! Ken fills this one with gas and oil, and the gas runs right through it. The gas tank leaks big time!!!! At this point, daughter in love is NOT a happy camper, so they drain the little gas left in it, and head back for another pump(Wednesday) and a 50 mile round trip!

Home again, with another pump and they're ready to pump!!!! It's filled with gas, no leaks, yayyyyyy!!!! Ken lowers the line into the pool and starts the pump and water spews out the back of it!!!!! Defeated and really angry, they box it back up and at this point, my daughter in love says "Let's go NOW, while I'm still mad!"....

They arrive back home with a NEW pool pump that was sitting waiting for them, cause daughter in love had called ahead. Wow, they started out with a tiny little noisy pump and they ended up with a 6 1/2 horse power pump and money back to boot!!!! Now, this new pump is the ultimate!!!! The hoses look like fire hoses!!!!! And it's quiet!!!! So, Ken and son fill it with gas and oil, prime it and start it up! 

OK......it's running smooth, but no water yet. Did I ever tell you that Ken is a little impatient???? Well, if I haven't, let me tell you now....he's impatient! Us women are clear across the pool, sitting comfortably watching while my son is squatted down between the pump and the pool and Ken is standing bent over the top of the pump......still no water coming out. The Ken gets a bright idea and goes to work! He takes the cap off to see if ANY water is flowing through....it sputters out the cap a little, then it sputters a little more, then a pretty good sized spray that gets Ken a little wet and he realizes "GET THAT CAP ON NOW!!!!!!!!!!" Tooooooooooooooo late!!!!!!!

What happened next had me laughing till I was hurting.

The water doesn't spew.......IT'S a geyser!!!! You've seen water lines bust on the street???? Well that's what this one did, only right into Ken's face! Now, let me describe the water that was sand blasting his face and upper body. There had been NO pool cover this year. The water looks like solid green slime full of dead frogs, tadpoles and they fished out some baby drowned possums out of it!!!!! Ken was trying at first, I don't know why, to still put the cap on it, my son is trying to figure out how to get away from it without going in the pool. Finally, he wrangles around and gets the pump shut off. And the laughter resonates throughout the neighborhood! The looks on their faces were priceless!!!!!!

We got home and Ken gets in the shower.....whhhhhheeeeeeewwwwww did he ever stink! And I gave him the moral:

satan seeps into our lives with little trickles, but if we stand there, wide open for his attacks and don't move away, he's spray over us like a geyser. We'll be covered with his stench.

Do you have any little little trickles that you need to move away from today? What well is springing up over you?