Should I Get Into The Hot Tub...

 

If you said, "Eddie Murphy, in a Saturday Night Live skit, playing James Brown, getting ready to get into the hot tub.  Season 9, 1983," you get 75 bonus points.  Partial credit will be given for a correct partial answer.

It is time: the hot tub is due to be emptied, cleaned, and refilled.  Sunday morning wasn't blistering hot, so Murphy and I went to work on it.  We have a 120 volt sump-pump that I put on the floor of the hot tub and run a hose from that to drain it...

 Ah, if only it was that easy.  The first hose I attached to the pump must have disintegrated from the inside (one of those "expandable" hoses)... water barely trickled out of it.  I attached a different hose, but it was quite long enough to drain where I wanted; I went to attach another hose to that one... a kink in the second hose stopped the flow between them, and I got sprayed.  Thoroughly.  Oh well, it is warm out and that feels moderately refreshing.  Moderately, because the water is at temp (101º).

I got the hose situation straightened out (literally) and the tub started draining...

 While that was going on, I cleaned the filters.  Got out the special "filling filter" that attaches to the hose when filling the tub.  When the tub was empty, I wiped it all down in preparation of refilling.

I had cut the power to the tub before draining it - you don't want the and pump to run while the tub is empty.  When the tub was full, I plugged it back in and...

 No air lock, jets flowing just like they are supposed to.  Program the tub for the self-cleaning/filtering, set the time and temperature, and it is good to go.  Fresh and clean.  With the summer heat, the water temp coming out of the hose was 101º... no warm up necessary.  I added sanitizer and water conditioner - good to go.

Photos for this post were taken with the new Meta Adventurer AI Glasses.

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Full Moon...

And last night...

 The actual time of the full moon is 4:56 pm today; so the moon will appear full last night and tonight.  For those keeping track, this is the Strawberry Full Moon.  Not because it will appear red, but as a harken back to Native American naming and time to harvest strawberries.