Pool Life for Me... Not for Thee, Duck!
Apr. 29th, 2026 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerThere's good news/bad news with the swimming pool. First the good news: I've been enjoying the pool area pretty much every day this week.
...Well, not the pool per se but definitely the hot tub. It hasn't been warm enough to go swimming in the pool. That winter heat wave we had back in March subsided. High temperatures have only just started to poke up into the 70s again.
The swimming pool is heated. It's just not enjoyable to lounge around part in, part out of the water because the air's not warm enough. The 103° (F) water in the hot tub makes up for it.
There's an unwanted visitor who thought the pool water was great, though....
We had a pair of ducks move into the pool area at the start of Covid when everything was shut down. Fucking ducks. Fortunately I haven't seen them around for several years now. Until earlier this week, when this annoying quacker was paddling around. Hawk said earlier in the afternoon he was sleeping in our pool!
I chased him off by waving my towel at him, kind of like one might do to enrage a bull. All that did was scare the duck off as far as the roof of the pool house. He quacked at me indignantly from up there. Fucking ducks.
...Well, not the pool per se but definitely the hot tub. It hasn't been warm enough to go swimming in the pool. That winter heat wave we had back in March subsided. High temperatures have only just started to poke up into the 70s again.
The swimming pool is heated. It's just not enjoyable to lounge around part in, part out of the water because the air's not warm enough. The 103° (F) water in the hot tub makes up for it.
There's an unwanted visitor who thought the pool water was great, though....
We had a pair of ducks move into the pool area at the start of Covid when everything was shut down. Fucking ducks. Fortunately I haven't seen them around for several years now. Until earlier this week, when this annoying quacker was paddling around. Hawk said earlier in the afternoon he was sleeping in our pool!
I chased him off by waving my towel at him, kind of like one might do to enrage a bull. All that did was scare the duck off as far as the roof of the pool house. He quacked at me indignantly from up there. Fucking ducks.
