The boys were back yesterday and today to finish the pool deck and the weather is still nice so progress on the rest should be fast.  They put an inhibitor on the concrete so they could come back today and give us the pebble finish we want on the deck.  Once they exposed the pebbles they finished it with a few coats of sealant.  It looks so good!!!

This took forever and the guys would trade off because it must have really hurt their arms.

Cutting expansion joints.

We love this surface.

Look at that muddy water in the pool lucky the lining goes in much later.

The pool is going to be so beautiful when it is all finished and the plants are in.

Not much happening otherwise as we have had visitors and will continue to have them right through to October so work will be slow.  We love having the company though and would not change a thing.


E/B

Ah well we had a good run with the pool and now we are stalled.  Rain is not good for new concrete so until we get a few days of clear weather we wait.  Although Dwayne from Shelin has told Brian he(Brian)  is free to decide if we pour or not but we will eat the cost of replacing the concrete if it rains, so we wait.

The pool crews still amuse  us.  When the concrete crew arrived in the back yard it was like, "the cool boys are here everybody out of the way".  They swaggered in with the same colour shirts and sunglasses all in a line. As I said to Brian "Why are they not moving in slow-motion?"

Meanwhile we are pretty slow inside the house but we can get a lot done once colder weather sets in.
Brian has painted another part of the workshop and we have installed the medicine cabinets in the master bath.

The gardens are filling in so I should have a good plant base for next year.

E/B

The concrete crew at work preparing to pour.

Getting the levels right, so very important.

Our granddaughter asked when she could get a tattoo. 

Ready for the next step which is pouring the deck.

Hoping the weather clears up on Monday.

We are so excited to have the pool started.  This will take the rest of the summer for sure since we have to take time in between pouring concrete and fencing the pool to put in a retaining wall that Brian and I will do ourselves.

The guys were here on time and did a full days work before leaving we are surprised at how many people work for Shelin Pools.  There seems to be a crew for every step of the project.

No other work being done right now just pool and picking up apples from under the apple tree.  It's nice because we can take them to a horse farm just down the road and they are very happy to get them. More pool later.

E/B

The kids loved watching these guys.

Lots of clay to use as fill.

We love this shape of pool.

The back wall where the retaining wall will go.

I guess this is still an ongoing project.  It is nice out right now so I am trying to get as much outside work done as I can.  It has been amazingly cool here.  We have had the windows open and even found it cold a few days.  This is perfect working weather.

I have been picking rocks out f the dirt and weeding then putting mulch on top.
I need to pick rocks out of the dirt because my rock pile did not get moved to a new location but the big rocks pulled out and the smaller ones levelled off.  Problem is it is higher than the lawn and now needs to be raked lower so as I am raking rocks are coming to surface and catching on the rake.
That is why I now have a rock wall started.  These are the ones that have been pulled out of the ground.

Lucky I enjoy this kind of thing.

E/B

New mulch waiting to be used.

The plants are very small and I think they will look great next year.

The trees and shrubs in their ice cream pails.

The rock wall.

All these stones have been pulled out of the dirt.  Many more to go.