I’ve added a bunch of new bargains in the online bargains section. There are still more places I need to check for bargains, but this gives it a good number of new ones. Have to work on the unresearched jobs section next, as well as tomorrow’s newsletter. Mondays are so busy!

Fortunately I do get to relax too. My husband set up our big blowup swimming pool the other day, and it has been steadily warming up. It’s about two feet deep, I’d say, so deep enough to relax in and for the kids to have a lot of fun playing in.

Of course, the disadvantage is that now I have to supervise them carefully in the back yard. Can’t take chances, after all. Ariel gets in every chance she gets, so far only with permission, but she has tried just saying “I’m going in the pool now!” and heading for it. Can’t turn my back on her out there.

The pool is too small to easily chlorinate, so instead my husband regularly takes some of the water out for the plants, and then we change it. Actually, we generally leave it empty for a week or two, since it takes a lot of water. But it is nice to cool off since where we are the temperatures are getting up there… and so is the humidity, which is worse.