Saturday, April 16, 2011

Emptying the Pool

Today Jack's son came to empty our pool. He had a special pump and it was drained in less than two hours. Unfortunately by the time I thought to take a picture, it had started to rain. But you can see the water gushing out down our laneway.
That's Barry's van in the driveway. It used to be Jack's but he gave it to his son when he bought the PT Cruiser a couple of years ago. It has over 400,000 kilometers on it. Good vehicle. It's the same year as mine, only mine was the 15th Anniversary SE and I only have 135,000km on it!


As you can see here the pool is empty, except to clean it up. It was full of leaves at the bottom. There was no time to clean it up last fall. Barry and Jack are taking the pool apart now. It's freezing cold out there but both are dressed for it.
The seat is going to be moved against the house and the deck will be squared off and widened to the end of the house. Where the pool is we are going to put stairs to the garden. The pool was sunk into the ground about foot. It's not the way it was supposed to be installed so we will have to buy a pile of soil to fill it in once the pool is gone.

Like I mentioned above it's raining out and bitterly cold. Good day to stay indoors. Stay dry everyone.

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