"Sterling" wrote in message
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I bought a home in New Orleans - In town not the suburbs. Had a lovely
pool that took up most of the backyard. It was a selling point for me.
Little did I know.

There was a hackberry tree and a Chinese tallow tree that hung
gracefully over the pool. Well, if you have had a pool you know right
away what happened. These two trees dropped leaves, flowers and berries
all day and night. The berries were a poisonous purple which stained
everything they touched. The bottom of the pool and coping was
constantly spotted. Could NOT get the trees down because one of them
belonged to a neighbor and the other was so big, no one could get the
needed equipment in to get it out. Plus it had grown into the neighbor's
fence.

You cannot drain and clean a pool in New Orleans because of the water
table.

Plus I would find dead frogs in the skimmer on a regular basis. It had
to be cleaned all the time and despite the fact that New Orleans was
built over Hell, the water temp was cold most of the year.

I bought chemicals by the case!

There were also two vicious German Police dogs - who did really belong
to the police - who lived behind us and would jump the fence to go
swimming. Their owners were always apologetic - when you could find them
- and would come retrieve them. It seemed they could only jump one way.

It was a terrible experience. I would never have another pool.


Holy smokes! That's quite a story. You missed an opportunity for
entertainment, though. I have to think it wouldn't be impossible to find a
person with these two qualifications:

1) Owns a large alligator and would be willing to bring it over for a couple
of days.
2) Believes, as I do, that dogs are in the same category as rats &
mosquitoes, and should be "managed" with extreme prejudice (and gusto).

Does this require clarification, or are the delicious possibilities pretty
obvious?