Saturday, August 23 - Picking out cement!

Today is a very overcast day, looks like it could rain at any minute. Hurricane Fay is supposed to bring us some rain over the next couple of days so the work has stopped. The plaster for the pool and the concrete cannot be done or even started with rain in the forecast. The fence still has to go up, too. We picked that out yesterday and are happy with our choice.

We picked out our concrete color and design today and are going with a stamped concrete that is the color of our stone. After walking around in the mud spray painting where we think we want our decking to be poured, we still cannot make up our minds. We finally went out and sat in the spa to get a better feel for what we think we need. We came up with the idea that we really don't need sidewalks coming from the driveway to the pool or a sidewalk coming from the patio to the pool. One day we are going to redo the deck on the back of the house and may have steps pointing toward the pool and we would not want to cover up sidewalk if that is the case. We are going to do flagstones or some type of paver for a walk way to the pool. Another question is trying to figure out where we need the most decking. Is it at the shallow end? In the middle? Do we need any at the deep end? Just questions that we have to find an anser for in the next few days. We don't want to go over budget either!