NADAC Agility & Katrina

Eric • 1st Sep 2005 • Uncategorized

Our drop-in agility class tonight reminded me that Scout & I did a NADAC trial this past Sunday. Scout ran 2 standard runs w/ gambles (1st place in 1 standard, DQ the other), Touch-N-Go, Tunnelers, and Jumpers. If you’ve ever seen agility on TV, you can guess what the events were like. It was a long (13 hour) day for the both of us.

I may drop in the class I just came back from now and again, but I’m waiting to see what Western Lakes has opening in October. There’s a fun course set up this Saturday, so we may show up & do a few runs.

Scout is also seen on the Western Lakes Training Club photo page. She’s in the upper-right, lookin’ good!

In other news… there really isn’t any. I’m super busy w/ work, Jason goes back to school in a few days, and summer ends this weekend. That’s OK – I’m ready for fall, Laura’s favorite season. I’m sure she’ll have her “My Yahoo!” page all leafy and such by Tuesday.

Also this week, Katrina came through Buffalo, dropping a mere 3″ of water. I think that’s about twice as much as we’ve gotten in the entire month (of August), in just 24 hours. The only thing that flooded at my house was my swimming pool, but a siphon and about 20 minutes took care of that. I was looking online to find instructions to link to on how to siphon the pool, but I couldn’t find any. So here are mine:

1. Take a small garden hose – I use a 4′ one
2. Put one end in the water
3. Lay the other over the wall of the pool
4. Suck quickly & hard on the end of the hose hanging out of the pool. Not the adverbs here: quickly & hard. Quickly so you don’t get a mouthful of water, and hard to get the siphon going
5. If you get the water through the hose, over the wall of the pool and falling down the rest of the hose, below the water level in the pool, it will continue to flow by itself until air enters the top of the hose (the part that’s in the water)

Things that can go wrong, and how to fix them:

1. You get a mouthful of water
   Spit it out, but keep the end of the hose that you sucked on below the water level of the pool, so you don’t have to do that again
2. A little water trickles out, then stops
   Make sure the other end of the hose is fully emerged in the pool, then suck harder next time
3. The siphon stops because air gets in the top
   Don’t let air in the top. I use a hockey stick to push down the solar cover to drain the water to the entrance of the hose.

Now you know how to siphon excess water off the cover of your pool If you have an inground pool, you’re rich enough not to need to suck the water off yourself, so go buy a pump.

I’m sure you’ve found your way to the Red Cross site already, but if you haven’t, here it is: http://www.redcross.org/.