Alan Hood

Two years ago my friend Gordon’s son called me because a lady he works with was giving away her 24’ round above ground pool. So Gordon, Kyle and I went over to her house tore the pool down and brought it to my house. My daughter Tayler and I started digging a hole to bury the pool in because even though it is an above ground pool we wanted it down to grade level. It is very hard to explain how much dirt a 24’ circle 5’ deep contains so lets just say it is a lot. Well we dug for the entire summer and got a hole 25’ round and about 3 feet deep. Really we had both had enough of digging to last us a life time, so we hired another friend to finish the hole.

That project lasted from November till May and included renting a backhoe and tearing down a wall to get it into my backyard, with only minor improvements to the hole. Then came hired workers for 2 days to finish the hole for final setup of the pool. Now 2 vacations and 6 weeks later we actually have the pool setup and filling with water. Still needed is the plumbing and electric but hopefully those items will be finished in the next couple of days. I would like to say that it is the greatest pool in the entire world but really it is just a hole filled with water and surrounded by piles of dirt. I thought that a lot more dirt was going to go back into the hole for finish work but it looks like most of the dirt is going to need to be taken away.

I hope that by the end of this summer we will have concrete poured around the pool and the yard completely back together but only time will tell, it may be 2 more years until it is actually usable at the rate we are going.

I really should have written this as one very long sentence because that is almost what this pool feels like a sentence.