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Today, we went to mom and dad's to swim in the pool dad bought last year. This year, he set it up where he thought it would be nice and flat. After the first 10 minutes my kids were in it, it became lopsided. One side was obviously lower than the rest of the pool. Mazie inadvertently put the teeniest bit of pressure in the right spot and next thing you know, the whole pool is draining; spilling its water over the side. There was a lot of yelling after that, which mainly was instructing the kids to pull the side back up. Shame on us adults for thinking that the kids could manage the hurculean effort of fighting the force of gallons of water. So, Jason saved the day and held up the side.

When it was discovered that the pool would not recover from its lopsided position, my dad and Jason drained the water and set about moving the pool. There was much discussion about where the most level portion of the yard was. We decided to put it between patios; 60% on the grass and the rest on cement. We moved the pool no less than 5 times while trying the find a flat area. There was a moment when my dad decided the best thing to do would be to throw the pool away. But we were able to find a good enough spot. We could see the water was pooling too much on one side again, so in order to thwart that, my dad produced some plywood to put under the pool. This required getting towels from my mom so the corners of the plywood wouldn't pierce the bottom of the pool or cause undue injury to the kids.

The pool went through much southern engineering today. All the kids cared about was getting in the water. Tensions were high and it was clearly a case of all chiefs and not many indians; not a good thing in 88 degree weather.

Yep, we made some memories today.