Alles geht mir gut
The weekend went well. I managed to finish the book I was reading. 
In installed some kind of new “chlorinator” on our funny-little-pool. I dumped about 50lbs of salt in to the pool and then sort of stirred the whole thing up. The filter ran for 24 hours to thoroughly mix everything. Then I turned on the chlorinator. It takes the salt (Sodium Chloride) and splits the chlorine from the sodium producing chlorine. So that ran for three hours and I guess the pool is all chlorinated now.
The kids seem to continue to like it, which is key.
Speaking of which, they went to their first day of their summer “camp” - a three hour day-camp thing at the local vo-tech school. They get
- One hour of computer time
- One hour of swimming time
- One hour of sport (indoor or outdoor)
They had a great time, Liz said. They get swimming lessons for half the time and then play time for the remainder. I think my kids are spending virtually the whole summer in some piece of water or another. That’s ok, its good for them, right?
I continue to work with the dogs on training. I have completely given up on the “Koehler Method” of training. I have no doubt that it works, but I’m concerned that its really too harsh. However, I think he has a lot of good things to teach, so I plan on taking some of his principles and leaving others behind. I still can’t get behind an all-positive-reinforcement regimen. I think there has to be a carrot and a stick. Koehler seemed to advocate mostly using the stick. Clicker training seems to advocate using only a carrot. I think there must be somewhere in between that should work for me.
Buckaroo appears to be a quicker study than Peterman. Bucky is getting the hang of “stay” better than Pete and also seems fond of playing frisbee! Which is cool. I’ve always admired the dogs who could play frisbee and I think it would be great if I could teach them to catch a frisbee.
Ben went to the beach on Saturday when it was miserably hot. A buddy invited him to the beach. They stayed all day and then he got to stay over at their house that night. He had a great time and didn’t get sunburned or anything. I think the other kids were a little jealous. I know Chloe was. In fact, the following day they all asked if they could go to the beach too.
Sadly, I’m not a fan of the beach and will not go out of my way to go there. The last time we went I set up some kind of dopey shelter because the thought of sitting in the sun all day … well, I hated it. Liz just looked at me like I was nuts for setting it up. I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Sure, its dopey - I don’t care about that, though. I dunno, maybe I’ll try it again.
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