You're fired!

We paid Keith Malette, the lone technician for The Pool Police in Austin, Texas, for one year of service in advance to care for our pool and these are photos taken yesterday of our pool.  It's so bad that the whole Green Giant mess needs to be drained and acid washed. I know, I know...never pay for service until it has been done.  Sometimes it's nice to dream that there are actually people in this world who can be trusted on a business deal like this.

 It looks like our sprinklers aren't doing our vegetation any favors either.  This is so depressing.

Apparently there's a huge turtle that's made a home in our pool too.  Great. The hot temperatures in Austin aren't helping the situation much either. Thankfully, we'll be back home soon and we've hired someone to fix Keith's mess and it should be sparkling clean for us by then.

If you want to see what the pool is supposed to look like, here's a link that I posted a couple years ago of our new pool and landscaping.  Keith isn't exactly fired.  He just stopped showing up for the job apparently, and hasn't been to my house for a while so I thought I'd post his reference from me right here on my blog.  When he actually did what he was paid to do, he did an acceptable job.  It would have been nice if he would have kept his written and verbal agreement and "from the heart" promise.  Keith, if you see this, please give me a call.  Thanks!