🕷️ Something Lurks in the Deep End

An October Cautionary Tale from Sparkling Pools

There’s something in the water.

Not a leaf, not a twig. Not this time.

You can feel it watching.

It starts in early October, when the air turns crisp (for Houston, anyway) and the trees begin their slow-motion betrayal—shedding leaves one at a time like they’ve got a grudge against your pool.

You skim. You scoop. You try to stay ahead. But something…returns.

You notice the cloudiness next. A greenish tint, maybe just a trick of the light—or maybe not. The pool chemistry, once stable, now shifts overnight. Your pH is plotting. The chlorine is tired. The balance is slipping.

You tell yourself you’ll test the water this weekend. But the weekend never comes.

The Algae Rises

By mid-October, the surface glistens—but not in the good way.

A slick. A shimmer. A vague unease.

The leaves are no longer floating—they’re nesting. Sinking. Layering. Decomposing.

Something squishy brushes your leg. You pretend it was nothing.

You do not look down.

Ghosts of Pools Past

Your pump makes a noise now. Not a broken noise. A thinking noise.It knows. It remembers that one time last year when you forgot to backwash.

The filter has secrets. The skimmer basket has demands.

There are pockets of air where there shouldn’t be—and nowhere, nowhere, is there clarity.

The Inspection

You call in a professional—not because you’re afraid, but because you’re reasonable.

They arrive with test kits and a vacuum pole.

They nod. They understand.

They’ve seen this before.

Final Thought

When fall hits Houston, your pool becomes a battleground. The enemy? Leaves. Neglect. Algae. Time.

If your pool water is whispering to you this October…

Listen.

Call Sparkling Pools.

We speak fluent “Deep End.”