Swimming With My Cell Phone

For the second time I've taken a cell phone swimming with me. The first time was when we still had our round wading pool. The phone was my old clam-shell Samsung that had been my constant companion for about the past three or four years. That is, until I plopped my butt down in the middle of the wading pool and about 10 minutes later, as my hand brushed against my pocket and I realized... oops. I was supposed to have left the phone on a chair near the pool.

The second time was just this past Thursday. We had had Cody vacuum the pool, sending the water to "waste", which sends it directly to the canal without running it through the filter first. This lowers the water level in the pool speedily. We did that so that Dianna and I could get into the pool and using CLR and some old t-shirt rags, clean the perimeter blue tile of calcium deposits. As long as we stay up with that, doing it every couple of weeks or so, it's an easy thing to do.