Dead Mouse

[Wolffe]

I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but all of the old posts are gone. I even hoped Google had cached some of the old posts, but I couldn't find what I was looking for.

I found a dead mouse in the skimmer this morning and now I'm just looking for some peace of mind. Ever since we built the pool, I've always had the thought of that dreaded day where I lift the skimmer's lid to find something floating inside... and today was the day. I found two tiny frogs last year (a few days apart) but that didn't really bother me much (although I have no idea where it came from since this is a heavily residential area) but the mouse got to me a bit. I've read about some of the things some of you have found and this just can't compare... but anyway...

The mouse completely shot my plans of enjoying this beautiful hot day in the pool after a week of rain and grey skies. The chlorine level was very low afer all the rain, so I decided I'd rather be safe than sorry and I dumped enough bleach in the pool to bump up the chlorine level to roughly 16ppm. Is that sufficient to sanitize the pool again? I'm not sure what my stabilizer level is at (ran out of those test agents), but it's fairly low. I added stabilizer granules at the start of the season and I use bleach exclusively.

Also, when can we jump back in again?

So, instead of swimming we saw Superman Returns instead -- I thought it was ok, but the plot was rather dull in my opinion.