April 09, 2005
Jenny vs. The Pool
My morning began in the usual way, when I'm here at home.
I just returned from Dallas where I attended an awesome conference hosted by Enliven International. While I was gone, my friend Grover stayed here to take care of my Yorkie, "Jenny the Dog", not to be confused with "Jenny the Human", my niece and her namesake.
Every morning at 9:06, exactly, the pool pump turns on and the water is divirted to the solar panels on the roof, causing air to be flushed out through the pipes just under the water. Jenny has quite a reaction to this - and she waits for it to happen each day.
She's memorized the sounds of the whole process. The series of little clicks that the pump makes when it turns on, the sound of the water going to the roof (where the solar heaters are), and the sound of the air making its way through the pipe to the pool, and, of course, the sights and sounds of the massive eruption that occurs.
The neighbors don't like it much, either - since she's loud as she barks at, and bites at, the water. We try to keep her inside around 9:06am, if we can remember, just to be sure she doesn't wake up the neighborhood.
But she loves the routine of it - and she knows just when it will happen each day, and she actually waits for it.
On one of his visits, my friend Grover shot a video of it. Click on the image (above) to see it.