July 2013 around the house and pool

My hostas  Eventually white marble chips will go in here as well.

Queen Palm

rock garden, view from front porch

duplicate pix 

duplicate pix

duplicate pix

our bit of paradise, front view from street

rock garden, street view

my big flowerbed

walking around the house

banana trees & fig trees

figs growing

new rock garden, hopefully next year convert to water garden

replanted tomatoes

house from neighbor on side's view

front porch

the pool this morning.  back yard is a work in progress

part of the walkway tom created yesterday

walk way tom created.

Gal Pals Visit July 2013

Nancy and grandson Dillon

Kids:  L to R  Chelsea (my oldest), Michael (my son)

Aaron (blue shirt, Chris' son) Tiffany (Aaron g/f) and Ashely (Michael's g/f)

tom

Nancy, Dillon, Chris

me...my kind of day....

watching the kids on the tube

Phillip (Michael's pal) Olivia, Michael

doing tricks

Michael and Phillip swimming

Chris (foreground) Ashely (background)

L to R  Phillip   Ashley  and Michael

 

pool

this is what 4.3 tons of sand looks like

final site picked for pool.  the middle used to be my tomato garden.

installers arrive.  first time. 

digging out the pool site

progress stopped.  huge piece of bedrock in middle of pool site.....

delivery of gravel (saturday morning, bright and early!)

gravel .....  25 TONS of gravel

large piece of rock pulled outof the ground, olivia is there for perspective

 

tom on top of our 25 + tons of gravel

in goes the gravel

pool foundation

the barrier between rock and sand, then the sand

 prepping for pool

the walls

its up!

put a foot of water in to hold it up and in place

me n scout snuggling

lorelei 6 months old