First Swim of the Season!

After being tempted by the beautiful blue water for months, we were finally able to swim again. We were mad at ourselves for shutting down the pool as soon as we had a cold snap last November. There were several days after we turned off the heater that it was warm enough to go for a swim. We have been waiting and waiting to get back in so we had plans to get the heater going as soon as we could.

The heater didn't even have to work hard at all thanks to the addition of about 10,000 gallons of 80 plus degree water after the table repair. The unseasonably warm weather last weekend helped too. The temp drops a few degrees each night, but the heater gets it back up to about 80º by mid-afternoon.

The repair work was done Thursday and the pool company sent someone out to balance the water on Friday. He gave us the go ahead to get in when he was done.

Back in January we bought some umbrellas for the umbrella holes in the table and the baja step. Last year they were sold out at every store we checked by the time the pool was finished. I have a feeling Annabeth and I will be spending many hours under those umbrellas this summer!

The boys were making up all kinds of games with the pool toys. But it seems every one's favorite pool activity is jumping off the grotto. No one wanted to go in the grotto because apparently a big nasty spider took up residence there while no one was swimming this winter. I don't know if this is true for sure because I wasn't about to go investigate. We decided Dad should do a little grotto clean out before any of us would go in there.

If you look closely you'll see seven boys swimming. Two of the new neighbor boys heard the pool guy give us the okay and they ran home to ask their mom if they could join us. They seemed to have a great time. I hope we have lots of friends join us this swimming season! If you're local, come by anytime!!