Watermom's New Pool Adventure

[Watermom]

Here are some pictures. This first couple are from several years ago. In them, you can see how my pool and deck are in my yard. (Or I guess I should say "were" since right now the pool and deck have both been removed.)

From the road behind my house looking into my yard:




The next was taken from the house looking out into my backyard. Ignore the ugly white lattice "fence." Puppies like to chew pump cords, ya know!





This one shows the pool after the light blue liner was replaced. It was taken in 2006.





And, now, some pictures taken this afternoon after my pool was dismantled and removed from the yard. Notice all the pawprints in the sand. My "little girls" quickly decided they needed to play in the sandpit and they spent much of the afternoon in there. I looked outside one time and they were all asleep in a pile in the middle of it.


First is Kylie. She is 11 months old and the most mischievous of the three. She is always in the middle of any and everything that is going on. Fortunately for her, she is so cute that you can't stay mad at her for long.





Next, comes her sister, Malia, also 11 months old --- same litter. Malia is a little more aloof than Kylie and more reserved. She kind of just does her own thing most of the time.





Last but not least is our sweet Kenzie. Kenzie will be 8 in May and is the sweetest and most gentle dog we have ever had. (We've had 6 golden retrievers -- all female -- over the last 24 years.) She tolerates the puppies' nonsense pretty well and lets them crawl all over her in all their rambunctiousness. A lot of people ask us if she is the mother of these pups, and the answer is no. But, she is a good big sister to them and we love her to pieces. She is the only curly golden we have ever had. She still has all her winter hair and it is a heavy coat. But, all three are starting to shed. They need to. It was 87 degrees in Charleston today! You can also see the pool area in this pic, uh.... I mean, play arena!





I just noticed that in some of the pictures, it looks like my pool is not level. That is not true. It is just the photographer who can't hold a camera straight, apparently!

[aylad]

Hey Watermom, that sand pad isn't looking too smooth!!!

The pups are really growing up. They're cute!

Hoping the storm system that's coming through here now doesn't make it up your way....lots of tornadoes around, and they're saying the system is moving so slowly that were in for 3 days of pretty solid rain. Glad I shocked the pool before the pump quit....

Keep us posted on your new pool progress--can't wait to see it finished!!

Jan

[AnnaK]

What sweet dogs! One of our shepherds turned 8 in January. He would LOVE to come play in your sand!

[Watermom]

Jan,
That is the storm that is heading our way. That's why we are really hoping this will dry up tomorrow so the pool can go up Thursday and Friday before it gets here. It has only been 3 weeks since there were tornadoes flying all around this part of the country, too, which isn't the norm for these parts. This time it isn't expected to be so devastating but I think they are calling for pretty heavy rain. In a place as mountainous as WV, that means flooding! Although I don't like living on top of a mountain when it snows, when the valleys are flooding, I'm glad for my mountain. If we ever have to worry about flooding up here, then everybody better get busy building an ark!

[Watermom]

Pool installation today! The guys were here yesterday evening dropping off lots of big cardboard boxes. So, we spent the evening and this morning puppy watching as they are pretty interested in those boxes and want to get into them. They'll have to 'supervise' from within the closed gate of the deck right outside the house. I know they aren't gonna like being cooped up on the deck all day but there is no other way. We have a couple of chains that have stakes on the end. We'll stick them in the ground and use them to give the dogs some time off the deck occasionally throughout the day.