Friday, June 16, 2006
Hi again. I need to post my picture to my blog if I want to then add it to my profile so here it is.
Now... to continue with "The Saga of the Pool". (There should probably be some soap opera type music playing here but I don't have any of that sort of music and I don't really know if you can add it to a blog anyway.)
A couple of weeks after we completed our digging the pool company employees FINALLY showed up. Because of all of the rain some of the clay soil of the walls of the hole had fallen into the hole. The water had to be removed and more digging had to be done. When they finished the extra digging, increasing the depth of the hole 3" below what we were told to dig they ordered a load of sand. Oops no driveway anymore and they even gave us a big 40 minutes notice. Fortunately we were able to arrange street parking for our vehicles for the night so we wouldn't get a ticket. We also have wonderful neighbours who insisted that we park our vehicles in their large driveway for the other few days that we couldn't gain access to ours. Eventually the sand was transferred from the driveway to piles surrounding the hole in our back yard. We no longer had a back yard between the hole plus piles of clay and sand around the hole. At this point my husband, Glenn, began referring to the back yard as "the desolation of Smaug"( the dragon in the Hobbit). Here's what it looked like. Unfortunately the yard looked this way for several weeks since there were delays in our pool being shipped from the U.S. And sooooooo....we had to wait! 'Bye for now.
