Deanna's Dailies (or whenever...)

Hi everyone. I've decided to chat about our most recent home renovation, an in-ground pool for our backyard. Wow! It sounded like such a terrific idea! The pool was supposed to be installed at the beginning of May so we'd be swimming nice and early this year. Ha! Ha!
Our first challenge was learning that we had to dig the hole ourselves since the required machines couldn't gain access to our backyard. The size of the pool is 10' x 20' (3 feet at the shallow end and 5 feet at the deep end). We'd already dug a hole for our backyard pond several summers ago so we decided to incorporate that space into our pool hole. Several weeks later and 3 dumpsters full of clay, rocks etc. we'd completed the task. .. or so we thought. (I'm not even going to mention the many muscles we suddenly felt that we'd never made acquaintance with before.) THEN...Our friendly neighbourhood pool man told us that we needed an extra 8 inches more all around the hole that we'd carefully dug to fit the template that HE'D given us. You can imagine how popular he was at our house! Right after we finally completed our digging "the rains came down" collapsing part of the hole and partially filling it with water. Here's a picture of the completed hole (prior to the rain). To get an idea of the size of the hole, that piece of plywood is 8 feet long by 4 feet wide!