Thanks Watermom!

Great to hear from you, and good to be back. I haven't posted much because the BBB method works so well! Last year we were busy buying the second house, (our future retirement home in Florida), so life was nutsy.

My CYA level is high simply because of my unconventional method of not covering the pool in the winter. The downside to that is when the springtime comes and the foot thick ice melts, I add two floaties full of those nasty pucks to keep some Chlorine in there. Being gone 3 weeks in May messed me up a little bit.

Doing this gives me my yearly dose of CYA, and then I just need to keep the correct amount of chlorine in there. I do have that chart taped to my kit, I should have known I needed to add more.

I'd run the pump overnight, but because of some of those cottonwood things clogging up my skimmer, I need to empty that skimmer every few hours the first few days, so i'll keep it off during sleeping hours.....(my wife won't get up every two hours to do this....how selfish!! )

Thank you again for your kind help...it IS good to be back!!

Frank D.