Out of the blue, my wife decided that it would be nice to have a swimming pool again, since the one we had when the kids were young was so much fun. Of course she didn't have to maintain it, so she really has no idea of how much "fun" it really was. Anyway, we decided to place it close to the lower deck and I ordered five yards of sand to make a level surface. After wheelbarrowing that down the hill to the back yard, it became painfully obvious that much more was going to be needed to level out the grade, so we had another five yards delivered. That too came up short, so we rotated the area 90º so it was perpendicular to the grade to conserve sand, which meant moving the five yards we just deposited, and it STILL wasn't enough. I wasn't about to pay another delivery charge, so we hauled two more yards in the pickup (two trips), and it was finally just enough. I'm definitely feeling it today after hand hauling, spreading, compacting and leveling more than 16,000 pounds of sand.

Anyway, we finished that up Friday morning and the pool was delivered just after noon. It took us about four hours to erect it and until this evening to pass 9000 gallons of water through the garden hose. Tomorrow will be getting the filter up and running and start conditioning the ugly well water that it was filled with. It was too dark when we got home tonight to get pics, so I'll post a couple tomorrow. This is why I rarely have time to spend in the shop during the summer.

Tom

Yes, those are hops in the background.