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Hey Kim... I repaired the umbrella!!

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The putting green IS my zen garden ;)

Haha... you busted me! I literally turned all that on just for your guys! I don't run them very often. A Im testing the water every Saturday and logging the results in a spreadsheet I keep on my phone. My last three weeks pH are as follows: 7.6, 7.4, 7.7 As this week's reading is a touch...

Flags installed today

I have no issue sharing! The putting surface is $14/sq ft. I have 300 sq ft. The fringe and chipping area are $8/ sq ft. I have 190 sq ft of that. So my set up is just shy of $6,000. You can do the math on your own design. I'm not gonna lie... it was very tempting to do more turf up the...

Yes, Kim. The idea is that the small side is a chipping area. You can pitch shots from there to the green. We should have the little flags on Monday. Glad you noticed the stone path... I like at almost as much as the green!! Water looks great. I test every week. PB finally added the salt this...

Funny story about our new umbrella (actually nobody was laughing)... we left it out over night, but lowered and tied it. Little bit of wind that night, but nothing major. Didn't matter, it still blew over and broke. So it lasted less than 12 hours. Bummer, we really liked it. I'm going to try...

Lots of progress over . I'll get right to the pics...

Who has a suggestion on low voltage lighting for my yard? The landscaper arrives on Tuesday and I'm feeling pressure to get the wires laid out before he plants the sod. Im tempted just to grab a transformer and a bunch of lights and wire from Home Depot (Hampton Bay). Any reason not to do that??

Okay it's update time. We actually disappeared on vacation for a week. While we were gone they completed the cabana (minus hanging the ceiling fan, twinkle lights, or tv). Here are a few pics...

I don't like how Sonos forces you to play all content through their proprietary app. I prefer to use native apps (especially Spotify where we have a family premium account). That way regardless of where I am listening to music (car, boat, house, yard, running, etc) it's always the same familiar...

Jim... here's where my head is at I've been reading great reviews of the Bose 51 speakers. I'm thinking 2-4 would be enough for us. I can run a reciever from the cabana as there's power there and I can run speaker wire anywhere I need from back there. My issue is I don't know what reciever to...

But isn't it one of the valves at the pad?

Here's the pump and plumbing for the rain wall at the equipment pad. Any ideas how I can turn it down??

Here's the underside of the Cabana. I'm standing where the back wall will soon be. That's the TV outlet hanging in front of me. You can see the conduit (painted brown) running along the rear beam. There's an outlet up high on the right (for twinkle lights). Also note the box in the middle...

Youre right, Suz. It's he piece that brings it all together. We worked really hard on the positioning of the cabana to be sure the rain wall wouldn't splash all over my head or fall in my lap when I'm sitting in my special spot! I gotta say, they nailed it. To answer your question, it...

Kim, you're like me... I feel like I'm constantly nagging, "When is it going to be done??!!" The big hold up was the plumbing. The cabana builder didn't want to come back to finish the back wall until he could wrap those front posts at the same time. But he couldn't wrap the posts until the...

A bit more progress this week... Look closely at the cabana... still no rain wall in this pic cuz PB took longer than expected to connect the plumbing. As a result front posts still not wrapped, but the roof is on!! Then yesterday the plumbing crew showed up to hook up the rain wall... and...

Haha, I was wondering if anybody was going to notice that. He dove off the table rock towards the deep end. - - - Updated - - - PB came back today. No clue what time, but according to the note he left, he dumped 2lbs of chlorine in the pool (shock) and instructed us to stay out for 4 hours. Of...

I just answered one of my own questions... 3,450 is max speed for that pump. I turned it off for the night

The PB owns maintenance of the pool for the next two weeks. After that either I take over or I hire a weekly service. This morning they came and got the filter pump going and turned on the waterfall. I was at work so didn't get a chance to talk to them, but I called later and was told they...

Kiddos having fun in unfiltered water. Take a look... still 3-4" to go. But nobody could wait. PB was here today for partial start up (can't turn on filter until water gets to skimmers). He threw in some acid to bring down Ph. They will start filter and add chlorine on Monday. As you can see...

Here is what I woke up to...

Yes, the crew showed up bright and early. Here are a few pics I captured (work from home today).

Hahaha!! That pic of the kids (the real owners of the pool) was late yesterday afternoon, while I was still at the office. Notice all the shade!! Kids sitting in the money spot too!! I dunno where #4 was... probably inside playing Xbox. Lol. I had to work late so my wife and kiddos had a...

Here's a few close ups of the cabana (not quite complete) Here's a pic of the rain descent built into the roofline that hangs out over the pool. This one is cool. If you look above you'll see the rear posts are 8x8 cedar. But the front posts pictured here are smaller steel posts. That's...

Here's another featuring 75% of the kids