Pool Upgrade

We have stowed the kiddie pool in the garage (to be eventually garbage canned). We have upgraded our pool capacity and depth to 12 feet round by 3 1/2 feet deep. (Although, after having all the grandkids and a few adults in at one time, I think we need a bigger pool ). Do you have any idea how much work it is to maintain even one of these above ground pools?! You have to clean it out with a net, run the pump at night to filter it, shock it with chlorine granules when it gets murky (which seems like all the time because you know little boys are not ALWAYS going to get out to pee), and keep chlorine tablets in the floaty thing. Then, cover the dumb thing with a solar cover at night to keep as many leaves and bugs as you can out of it and to warm up the water. Then when you go to use it again, you have to pull the cover back off. To top it off, I have a dog here that keeps eating the plug from the drop cord that hooks to the pool pump, and he even bit through the hoses to the pump so I had to order new ones off the internet. Good grief!

Isn't Nemo and Dory cute? They are fish that you put a AA battery in and then turn them on and they swim around the pool. I found Brucie the shark later but I didn't buy him. (I love Dory).