Finally–warm weather! We’ve had highs in the upper 70s and 80s and no rain this week for more than 1-2 days in a row, and it feels so good! Wherever you meet people, the talk is about how good it is to see the sun, how much more energetic we all feel, and what a treat it is to be above 50 degrees for a change.
“In the spring,” Tennyson wrote, “a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” Love is a year-round (not a seasonal) thing for Ted and me, so in the spring, our thoughts turn to opening up the pool. This week, we’ve been cleaning up the yard and the lawn furniture–since it’s finally warm enough to sit outside and enjoy ourselves.
The cover is off the pool, the furniture is out of the storage shed, and I’m ready to go with my trusty power washer.
There was a lot of rain in the past few months. The water level was at least 16 inches lower than this when we covered the pool last fall.
Everything is cleaned up and put in place. I love seeing all the trees in bloom wherever I go.
This year, we’re going to have a new pool liner installed, so we don’t have to clean up the water. A technician will be coming early next week to put the pump back in working order. Then we’ll drain the pool and a crew will spend a day removing this liner and installing the new one. The warm weather makes me eager to get back in the water to swim some laps.