The snow doesn't stay more than a few hours - or so I'm told. Lots of water though. A local pool store (who loves BBB and sells it at a good deal) guy told me I'm just as well to keep the cover off once the leaves have fallen so that I can keep an eye on it - easier to open in the spring, so that's what I was going to do. He feels a covered pool is an ignored pool ...

Anyway, thanks for the help. Now I just have to decide whether to keep the thing. I know I won't be swimming in it if it's not AZ warm water. I'm spoiled, too. = ) (Grew up in NH and started swimming each spring when the ice was still in the middle of the lakes. What an old lady I am now...)