Pick a few members up along the way and well go on a deck building extravaganza and pool hopping... with a lot of beer drinking this summer! Gosh... it's a shame I have to work! This could be so much fun!!!
Mac, I am 36 and I have a very soon to be 19 year old son, and a 17 year old daughter and a 1 year old granddaughter and I also have a 25 year old step son. I am enjoying the second part of my life! I was just telling my future DIL who is 25 that although I had my kids early, the perks of being in my mid 30's and having raised them is so nice because I am still young and enjoying life... She wants to wait til she is 30 to have babies and there is nothing wrong with that! She and my step son are enjoying their young selves without the responsibility of children! It works both ways. I will be very excited when I get to have another grandchild. My granddaughter has me over the moon with love!
On a brighter note... I got the following text from Professordaisy yesterday afternoon. "We are going to have to figure out how to get rid of those ant bugs! I've been run out of my floating! They all ganged up on me and attacked at once." Then a few minutes later. "Skimmer help? Maybe? I got stung multiple times...all at once...after I skimmed them out. Little !#@$%)s!
The ant bugs are some kind of flying ant looking things. Not sure what they are. So, I headed home to quit procrastinating and get the Hayward Skimmer installed. Holy cow that thing really sucks hard! Why didn't anyone tell me to get off my butt and get it installed??? I stood outside the pool beside the skimmer for almost an hour with a cold beer watching bugs get drawn into the skimmer and couldn't help but chant "die little ******** die!"
Yes! I have a 41 year old friend who has a high school graduate and a 1 year old! I just want the grandbabies so I can send them home when I'm done spoiling them!
Glad you are enjoying the pool so much Mac!
Beautiful job on the ground work, pool and deck. One pic from the side of your deck, showing the bracing underneath, looks like a scissor jack. My first thought was "what a ride!"
I envy you being able to step out your door and right into the pool. I have to go thru a back door, across the back porch, thru a screen door, then about 8 feet of yard, unlock the gate and up the steps to get to mine. I'm tired by the time I get there!
We get a lot of those ants also. Usually after a good rain or wind. They come out of a tree in a neighbors yard. It's really tall, covered in kudzu and hangs over the fence way up where I can't get to it to cut down. The kudzu also drops these huge hard shell pea pod looking things all over that corner of my yard and of course, into the pool.
again, great job!