wonderful mail day& Hot tub story ...

I  got   these 2 beauties in the mail  . The 1st one is  from my  stamping  Queen  Laura .. sorry for the  delay in posting your  Great card girlie .. with this new computer  I  took a photo of it  and   totally  forgot  where it  was uploaded .. I  usually  upload my photos in my  documents BUT some how your card was in  MY  Pictures  totally  different  file . and  I  didn't actually know it was  even in   there  until I was   looking around my computer and  there it was .. DUH  Now I really need to upload there  from now on I guess ... Laura sent me  this  great card   for her Mary Kay order  a  few weeks  back  its so cute  wouldn't  you agree ? 

Next on the  mail call day  is this card from   one of  my Glitter  Queens  Nancy Yes once a Glitter  Queen Always a Glitter  Queen I say .. and  her  card is   also a beauty, And sticking with  Glitter  Queen style  look at the  glitter on her hat .. Thank you  girls  for your  beautiful cards ..

OK now on to my HOT tub issue ..  I  am not  sure how this all happened  BUT hubby  winterized our Hot tub when he was home.   We even  stopped in  at a local hot  tub dealer to see what  we needed to  do  since this was the very 1st time  we actually  drained the  hot tub  for the winter ..  ( Note:  keep in mind  this was the  1st time ) Well the Hot tub dealer  ( Not a Sundance dealer .. Which is  the company we got ours from )  told us to  drain  hot tub and  then  use a wet vac and  suck all the  water out of the lines  through the  jets  and  then add  antifreeze ..( Can you see where this is all leading )  Ok hubby said thats easy  enough  then he  did the hot tub  everything  was  fine,  Then Tuesday   evening hubby  called  from Baghdad  and  asks  me to actually  call Sundance  and see what kind of antifreeze  we were to use .. ( WHY  he didn't think of this when he  was  doing it I have no clue) .. I am sure it was the Holy  spirit  talking to him  even though it  was  alittle  late  for HIM  to  do  it since  we thought  we had  done it  already .. Well Sundance   said we  need to use NO toxic  antifreeze  (  you know the   pink stuff  for  RV's , pools  etc...This stuff is actually  cheaper than  reg antifreeze 3.99 a gallon I got 4 for the flushing   )  well as  you  can guess  Hubby used  car antifreeze ..  soooooo  This was  a BAD  situation   since the  antifreeze  that was in there HAD to come out  due to hurting the   jet lines and  pipes.  Then the next thing was  we couldn't  just let it  drain into our back yard  since it was Toxic  and   could kill Bowzer  and what ever else it came in contact with ...  SOOO  what  are we going to do .. I  knew I had NO clue what to do  so Rich talked to  me about the  procedure and what to do exactly ..  1st we had to  use the wet vac  and suck out  every  drop of the antifreeze  that was in there  and then   being very careful  not to spill any  and then  transfer it  from wet vac to a  proper container  for  disposal  .  Ok  BUT the fun was just  starting  cause  then we had to  flush out all the jet lines  with the  correct  antifreeze   at least 3 times . That meant  adding the  pink stuff  by  a Turkey baster  into  each Jet   line  until filled  and then  sucking out  again with the wet vac 3or more  times .So  the flushing begins ..  Man those  jet lines  were either  super long OR my  turkey baster was  really  small cause it  seemed like it took   forever ..    My lovely mom  actually  got inside the hot tub  and  did  the  floor jets  and I did the  sides    Actually  now thats it is done  It wasn't  really   to bad Just time  consuming  and  of  course I was a nervous wreck. But  by the  2nd  flushing   Me and my mom were pros  we  even laughed  about  doing it as a business .. ( Go figure ) We are just Praising God  for Richard  listening   and all  is fine  and the  Hot tub is officially  winterized ....Big Thank you  to my mommy  for her help and  her  encouraging  conversation   while  passing the time  flushing ..

Until later .. Happy Stampin!! 

Comments

[jen]

oh what an experience you and mom had to go through - at least it was with her. where did you dump the anti-freeze?

hugs,
Jen

[Dawn E.]

Good Evening Dawn!

Been such a busy couple of days! I'm just now getting around to my bloggin'!
Those are some wonderful cards you received!
So you guys don't use your hottub in winter??? That is when we use it the most! Not so much in summer...but winter...it's AWESOME to sit in there in the -40...it's so cool..your hair freezes...haha
Have a GREAT weekend!
Hugs
DAWN

[Alberta]

Dawn, what a great job you did undoing the antifreeze problem. I was afraid of messing up when we winterized for the first time, so spent the money to have the technician come out and show me exactly how it needs to done. To me it was money well spent.

[Mary C. Anderson]

Hi Dawn. I was very sorry to read about your hot tub incident. But all is well now despite all of the hard work you had to go through. Your Mom sure is a sweetheart to help out as much as she did. I hope your doing well.

Mary

[Lori]

Happy to hear all turned out well with the hot tub. Isn't it wonderful to have a very supportive mom?

The card you received is really nice.

Lori

[Genelle Collins]

Boy what a hard lesson! We've never done that in 20 years cuz winter is the best time...especially her in Colorado! You should have tried it!...maybe next year!

[Rose Ann]

Awesome RAK's, Dawn!! Sorry about the hot tub situation...but I'm so glad everything is fine now. Way to go!! ;)

[Gina Wrona]

OH yeah, I remember that 3-tag card, I'll have to do that again sometime. Very nice, both of them!

You've got to be kidding? Antifreeze? Turkey baster? Oh my, no wonder you didn't go into this story at our club meeting. Hopefully you got it all with the great help of your mom.