Winding Oaks Pool begins

After considerable delay and even more spousal angst, the pool behind our home, promised to be done by November of 2010 by the agent selling the home, has begun reconstruction.

Criticism aside, it's been three days now since commencement of this long awaited project, and I've taken the liberty to snap a few pictures of the preliminary work. In these two pictures, we see the cement truck (partially hidden) and the most important piece of equipment, the cement "lift" with the ability to move cement from one side of the site to where it's needed. On the day this picture was taken, the task was to fill three "baskets" of cement to form the foundation for the south end of the pool, where a large shade structure will be secured and erected. I found it interesting that the foundation did not use wood forms, but a wire basket (for lack of a better word) which was approximately 36 inches square. There were three of them, but the cement truck ran out of product after two, so these are going to be really sturdy supports. Considering the potential wind load during hurricane season, you have to accept the wisdom.

That was three days ago, and the following day we had dump trucks come to carry away some of the sand which had been there, going nowhere, for many months. I missed my chance, however, to put out a beach umbrella, a beach chair, sand pail and a sign which said "Winding Oaks Beach Club" to share with our homeowners association. Oh well, time marches on and the best news is that (according to the board) now work has commenced, the contractor has 90 days to complete the job.

Over the coming months, I'll probably blog (which apparently has now reached the status of a verb) about progress on the Winding Oaks new and improved pool. Stay tuned.