Open Season for Swimming!

I remember an old Mervyn's commercial when they would talk about the newest sale and at the end there was a lady with her face against the store door saying, "Open, Open, Open!" ready to run in and shop...Well that has been my kids asking about when we would open our swimming pool. Sometime back in April when there was a few warm days, the girls began scrubbing the cover...

Then we added water and salt and turned up the heater and a couple of days later we had an 87 degree swimming pool that needed a good vacuuming! Several hours of vacuuming later, we had a warm and clean pool and it rained and snowed! Finally, Monday April 26 was warm and dry, in the high 60's and Caleb, Madelyn and Marissa took the first plunge!


The next day, it was warmer and Jocelyn came over to give the pool a try, too. She has been taking swimming lessons and she has learned to hang on to the side, so here she is showing off her new skills...


The little kids weren't the only ones asking about opening the pool! Adam came home from school on Thursday (with an Associate Degree!) and left on Sunday to work in South Carolina for the summer. He wanted to have a birthday party before he left so he invited friends and told them to bring a swimsuit. Mind you, Tuesday was the last warm day and it had been raining and snowing since then, including all day Friday. Friends started coming about 5:00 and finally by about 6:30 they are ready to swim. Don't let the streaming sunlight fool you...the pool was 87 degrees, but the air was in the low 40's at best!

So, the pool is open and anyone can join us! The temperature of the pool ranges between 87 degrees and 95 degrees, depending on who checked the heater last! We can guarantee the pool temperature, but nothing else! Hope to see you soon!

Oh, and here's a little patio story just for fun: On one of the warm days when we were working on the pool, the girls wanted to eat lunch outside at the table and they wanted the umbrella up. I told them to bring it out and set it up. Unfortunately, I didn't help and it was too heavy for them. In the process of trying to get the umbrella into the hole and down into the stand, the umbrella fell and the top shattered into a million pieces! We were glad they weren't hurt and extra glad we had a shop vac!