Skimmer Works

The pool work we had done in April fixed our broken skimmer. Fixed it a little too well maybe (not really).

Came home tonight to find the pressure guage at 0 and the skimmer basket like this. The pump basket wasn't much different.

Basically both were sealed tight and not producing any pressure through the filter.

So what is this crap?

It looked like some kind of seed pod or tree dropping. There's a row of white pines behind our pool that filled the pool with pollen last year. I checked their new growth, but didn't see anything like this. I walked around the yard a bit till I found the culprit.

The source is this little seed/blossom looking thing on my neighbors tree. What I can't figure out is why it's a problem this year. Without the skimmer working last year, this would have been a worse mess. Maybe the tree only does this periodically? Maybe I should figure out what kind of tree it is?

Maybe I should write about more interesting things instead of gunk in my pool.

- b