August 6, still here

I realize I haven’t posted in quite a while. We’ve been very focused and busy preparing for a 60th birthday celebration/ pool party for husband. Upcoming company is always a great motivator to get tasks done and to maintain things like gardens, etc. 

We have two wooden porches and they’ve been neglected for a couple of years. I spent a lot of time hand scrubbing with deck wash and they’ve gone from dingy blackish/ green messes where the rain hits them to lovely clean spaces. As well, the wide wooden steps up to the deck of the pool house were also looking bad, so that got dealt with as well. 

Husband has been very busy constructing a small pump house for the pool and doing the wiring and the plumbing. It is very near to completion. Prior to this, the pump and all other mechanical things relating to the pool have been in the back corner of the pool house which is elevated. Husband has wanted to move things to ground level for years and this was the year! 

I’ve been weeding and dead heading and fertilizing and watering on an ongoing basis. The party is this Saturday (4 more days) and I’ll be busy with food prep and last minute tidying. I’m hoping for good weather but the pool house is covered so we will be fine providing we don’t get gusty rain, then the whole thing will have to be in the house which I REALLY don’t want. 

That is the pool house this morning ( it’s overcast and rained through part of the night). Husband built the pool house. The pump house is located toward the back and you can’t see it in the picture. We still have to tidy up construction materials before Saturday.

We bought a new seating area set as our old wicker set was showing its age. (Half price at Home Depot!)

This is looking down from the pool house onto the pool deck. You can see our house in the background. That’s a cord for our little robotic pool cleaner in case you were wondering what that blue cord was. Best money we spent on the pool! Husband also built the pool himself as a kit. Of course we hired for the excavation, and the cement work of the deck, but he did everything himself with some grunt work from the rest of us. The kids were still rather young then. 

It has been a good summer so far and I’m looking forward to the rest of August before I potentially get back into some supply teaching. We ate our first carrots out of the garden and have had beans, peas, lettuce, and potatoes as well! 

Send good weather vibes our way here in Ontario for Saturday!🙂