Let there be water... Please!!!!

This is my optimistic post for the week!  Today is the day, I just know it!  The weather gods are cooperating it looks like a fantastic day out the sun is shining and we are on track to do the pool liner today!!!  This will be a tremendous accomplishment and a bit of a landmark if we can get this done.  :)

Yesterday was a good day, things are starting to come together and I can actually see progress everyday, that is hugely exciting since it marks the completion of the one thing that we absolutely wanted to do when we looked at the place... funny how that goes!!!  I am hopeful that the completion of the pool will lead to good Karma and everything else will start to follow suit.  :)

Here are some pictures of the pool as it currently stands.

The roll of silver space foil is the insulation for the upper portion of the pool.

This is Len one of the pool guys, he has been tireless working on all of this stuff.  He basically lives here, he has been here pretty much everyday for the last four weeks.

This is Dallas the owner of the pool place, he also basically lives here, he is here everyday checking in on things and working on things... he even mowed the lawn for me the other day.  :)  I have to say they have been amazing for the amount of work they are doing and what they are getting paid I can't complain one bit.

Here is is the magical mythical pool liner!!!  :)  It is pretty amazing the pool is 20 ft by 40 ft plus the Roman ends and is ten feet deep in the deep end, the box for the liner is about 12 inches deep by 30 inches long by 18 inches wide, I can't wait to see how it all goes together.  It is hard to believe that it is going to be big enough to cover the entire surface area of the pool.

So I was talking to Dallas yesterday about filling the pool etc. and he says oh ya you need to go to Walmart and grab the salt for the pool, I say sure how much do I need he says well at least 50 bags... what???  50 20kg bags of salt??  Holy crap!!!  So last night after I finished up for the day I went to Walmart... what an experience that was.  :)   To make a long story short (I know not something I do very often) I eventually got my 50 bags of salt... well 49 bags.

This is what 49 bags of salt loaded in the back of the mighty Kia (I have renamed it after my experience with it last night).  Each bag weighs 20kg which is roughly2,200 pounds.  This is harder to see, but this is what the Kia looks like with that much weight in it...

I was very concerned that the truck was going to break on the way home, but it was fantastic, no problems at all.  :)

So we are all set for the pool today!  Dallas has a load of water lined up so that will help get the pool filled, I think that the pool is around 180,000 liters so I am not sure how long it will take to fill that from the hose... a week maybe???  I will have to see if I can figure that out.  :)  Stay posted for more pictures and updates.