With the pool finished and the fence installed, all we had to do was fill the pool. We started filling it yesterday at 12:20pm and at 3:30am today I went outside to see how it was doing. It was almost up to the sitting ledge under the waterfall so I went back to sleep and got up at 7am and saw it was a few inches higher. We had three hoses going into the deep end so it helped to speed things up. Jay woke up when I did and we looked out the window from our room for a while and then decided to get our coffee and go outside and watch it finish filling. We took Bruiser with us and he had a blast running around inside the fence. As we were sitting there this morning, we got to thinking about how we had laid sod before at our last house and thought we would make a few phone calls today to see if we could find some zoysia sod to put between the house and the pool to make walking out to the pool less messy and muddy. We found a place that had two palates left! Jay went to borrow our neighbor's trailer, Jordan and I started picking up sticks and rocks. When Jay got back about an hour later he started raking the dirt and we started laying sod. The three of us worked so hard for hours putting this sod down but it looked so great and made such a difference we didn't mind. When we finished we got cleaned up and went to dinner then to Lowe's to buy some sand, topsoil and shrubs while we still had the trailer. We bought 32 shrubs, 10 bags of sand and a pallet of topsoil and an awesome yellow wagon! So we got that all loaded at the store and unloaded at home and are hoping that we can plant all of that tomorrow.
We can't swim in the pool yet because they put acid in it today to get rid of the calcium that leaks out from the plaster and the stone. It will be darker once the calcium is all filtered out of it.
Monday the pool company is coming out to get everything turned on and started up! It would have been great to jump in there today while we were working so hard!
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