Pool!!

So, let me tell you about my pool.  It's small, it's only 10 feet round and 3 feet deep.  Would I like a bigger pool?  Absolutely, I would love a bigger pool, however, I have a small backyard and when I measured early this spring, 10 ft was all I thought would fit.  But, for years I've been using a small kiddie pool.  If I'm lucky I can get 1 summer out of my kiddie pools.  Usually because they are inflatable and there are cats in the neighborhood (mine included) that jump on it and pop it.

You can see it there in the background over my right shoulder (left in the picture).  I would get some sort of floating device and float around in it as much as I could.  My backyard (and front yard) is on a hill, so it slopes down and I was lazy and didn't want to level the area, so one side would have about 6 inches of water and the other would have a foot or more.  But it worked okay.  

Two years ago I saw an inflatable hot tub in Walmart and I wanted it.  I was going to buy it.  Chris said no.  He said that the cats would pop that too, and where would we put it, blah, blah, blah . . . I researched them and reviews said that they are hard-sided inflatable, durable material that doesn't pop easily (unlike a kiddie pool).  I was going to buy one.  Chris said no.  I said it'd be perfect, Maddox could "swim," I would soak and we'd have a hot tub in the winter.  He said no.  I bought another kiddie pool (probably the one above in the background).  

However, this year I decided I was buying a pool  I didn't care what Chris said, I was buying a pool.  In fact, I don't think I even asked him, I just bought this one.  I bought it in March, it's been in the box in my living room since March.  Memorial Day weekend, it was supposed to be nice, I decided it was time to get the area ready and put the pool up.  Chris ended up with Friday off and decided he was going to work on leveling the ground. Our neighbor offered a rototiller, but Chris said he didn't want to bother getting it. He spent a lot of time shoveling dirt, for 3 days.  Damian ended up rototilling it on Monday . . . which really worked well.  

But we didn't get my pool up.  So I said "next weekend."  And then I went to eastern WA for my nephew's graduation and my family didn't want to put the pool up without me.  So last weekend I said rain or shine, that pool is getting put up.  Thankfully it was a nice weekend (because I would have been out in the rain putting it up anyway).  

This is the best picture I can find of the area.  That bush had to be trimmed back at least 3 feet, and all those branches above were trimmed as well.

I love it.  However, I want one bigger.  But, for this year, this will do.  I may end up with something bigger next year though.  ; )

Yesterday the weather was 90 degrees.  I ran in the morning (4:20am is early!!) so that I could NOT run in the heat of the day. 

It was so early that my solar lights were still on when I left the house.

And I got home as the sky was turning pink (no sun yet though).

I've been pretty bad at procrastinating my schoolwork lately, and I had a large assignment due yesterday but didn't start working on it until Tuesday, and then didn't do as much as I would have liked to because I was really frustrated.  Anyway, that meant that I was doing homework until 8pm (or later, not sure) last night.

But! I got to do it in comfy clothes with a glass of wine.  =)

Then I was sitting in the living room about 9pm not wanting to go to bed, but knowing that I needed to go to bed.  I was hot and I knew my bed would be hot.  And I got a great idea, why not go lay in my pool for a little bit. 

It was heaven! It felt so nice.  I floated around for maybe 45 min, and then went to bed.  It was late, but I was cool and I don't regret it at all. (I may regret the wine I drank though . . .)