Hey all,
Today wasn’t the best of days. Yesterday, at the end of the day I talked to the PB and he said they would be back Thursday to grade the slope from the driveway to the pool, so the truck could pull right up to dump the back fill. I knew this was coming, so I have been frantically pulling out the columbines, iris, chamomile, oregano, and some very cute little white flower that I have no clue what it is, and transplanting them into every container I can find. Anyway, my plan was to dig out the roses, and a couple more columbines this afternoon. At about 7:30 this morning I heard heavy machinery, looked out the window, and the bobcat had taken a first pass, I ran out the door across the deck to the stairs, turned the corner and realized it was too late. Not a good way to start the morning. (Sigh)
Anyway, since no work was supposed to be happening today, I had planned to do some errands. I spoke briefly with the crew and they said that they were filling today, but that the concrete pours were still planned for Thursday and Friday. So off I went, unhappy, since I like to watch what is going on.
When I got back home at noon, the back filling was half done, and no one was around. I figured they might be off to lunch and thought nothing of it. They did come back, but were reinforcing the sun deck, not filling. The bobcat couldn’t make it around the corner, so they are going to use a different type of concrete for that side. Something drier, that can be shoveled on, not poured. Not sure how I feel about that, but I am not a concrete expert, and Paul has an excellent reputation, so……let it go.
Paul stopped by later in the afternoon. He told me that two concrete deliveries were coming in the morning, one for outside the pool and one quick pour for the sun deck, at 8:00 am. His crew would be here at 7:00 though to swap out one of the wall panels, it was the wrong one and didn’t have the hole for the pool light. I then mentioned “lights, we are getting two, one in the deep end, one in the shallow end”. He looked at me, at the pool, and asked if I was sure. Then said that we couldn’t have one in the shallow end, since the panel where the light would go had the second skimmer. As a work around, he offered to put 2 spa lights in the sun deck area instead. I thought that was fair enough, and went inside to start dinner. Then, I started wondering how bright they are, and would the light reach to the stairs. I started looking online, and at the brochures and can’t find a single thing to help me figure it out.
I am pretty sure tomorrow will be better than today, but if anyone has any thoughts on the lights that would help.
