Option #2

so the pool guy called and it would cost us $26k (owwwww!) to essentially put in a new pool, so as much as we like the guy, we have to turn him down, as that's w-a-y more than we want to have a loan for. i mean, we could have maybe swung like $20k. maybe. but it would have really caused us to budget hard. for which we are not famous.

so the adorable one left a message for the guy we met with last summer that was about $7-9k less. which still is a lot of moola, don't get us wrong, but it's more manageable. and we miss the pool. okay, i miss the pool. the adorable one misses being mr. pool guy, which involes the following:

1. making sure the chemicals are balanced
2. backwashing the system
3. cleaning out the filter
4. adding chlorine and "shocking" the pool when needed
5. vacuuming the pool

i know, it sounds super crazy, but he seems to like this stuff. must be a man thing. me? oh, i'm the one that lounges and floats for hours on end with almost all of me submersed in the water, staring straight up at the sky, watching the birds, the airplanes, etc. i love it in our backyard, i really do. and i hope we can get the darn thing fixed, even if it's this fall.

thankfully, our darling friends, dan and jan, who live right by my office and who also have a pool, have said i can come over every day, which i will, believe you me. because nothing my friends, nothing is better than a pool in the summer.

if option #2 doesn't work out, it's going to be time to fill it in, plant some grass seed, maybe fix up the house some more, and dare i say it? yes, move to another house with a pool. you can say, it's okay. we're crazy. we're good with it.