The news we've been waiting for !!

Yippee. Our licence came through for the swimming pool so work commenced with a vengence on Wednesday. We had a couple of nice sunny days and a couple of horrible wet and windy days but they still managed three complete working days and only had to go home early (at 10am !) on Saturday. They start at 7.30am with loud music and lots of banging, I'm planning on hiring them when the pools finished as it's amazing how quickly the girls get up after they start !!

The bobcat came the first day and made quick work of digging out the massive hole. It took two days to dig out and then they started to line the area with steel. They're hoping to spray the cement on Thursday so I'm hoping the weather will improve. We've been back and forth about whether to paint the pool or have quartzite and I think we've decided on the latter - it should give a nice glittery look to the pool as opposed to the usual flat look they have here (in WA not the rest of Oz, they're more advanced !) as almost all pools are either fibreglass or painted. It should, hopefully, last longer too.

So it's all go and very exciting here, the only downside is that Mutley can't go out in the garden as it's all open and would get in the way so, bless him, he's contained to the house and not very happy about it. Even this weekend he couldn't go out as he could collapse the walls so it looks like we'll have at least 6 weeks of him being in and being full of energy, not nice for a pup.

I'm now running around getting quotes for fencing as the original ones were for $9,000 (we're having glass) which we can't afford so we are looking at seeing if anyone can come in cheaper, then we need to pick the quartzite (and find out how much extra we're going to be stung for that) and then pick the tiles, arrange for the poured limestone, get the solar heating and pool blanket and then live on beans on toast forever until it's paid for. Roll on summer, I say !! Paul's already planning his Christmas day around the pool and Christmas presents are sorted - lilos all round !!

05:46 - Sun 22 July 2007