Redneck Swimming Hole

    I love a pool....I do not love getting in a bathing suit in public, but I sure love to swim so I usually bring the pool to me.  Those easy set pools that you blow up and fill are AWESOME. Most of the time.  We've had one for the past three years.  I now know that two years is the limit for one of these pools.
     As we pulled out our pool this year we had to deal with NINE small holes in the inflatable ring on top.  SIGH - NINE! I swear there were none when we put it away!  After talking we changed the location in the backyard and put it where we thought it would be more private (i.e. away from the little girl next door who pops up over the fence like Jack in the box yelling "whatcha doin?" over and over and over), and get more sun.  We didn't realize it was also more uneven.
     After filling the pool and setting it up we quickly realized it was sloping like crazy and had to drain it, lay down sand, and start over.  It looks pretty good now!

If you don't look too close.  We got it MOSTLY even except for this side that we are holding up with chairs.....

I know......how very redneck of us. Don't you love the wood in the chairs weighting them down?  I have to credit my mother for this idea....because after if fell over for the third time I was ready to scrap it....but she figured this out.

oh......and if you don't count all the patches.  All NINE of them.  My mother also tried to put those little stickers that you put on the bottom of your shower to stop you from slipping on top of the patches to distract.....but that just made things worse.

We haven't gotten in yet, it's warming up.....if we can keep it from caving in on one side.  I have some friends coming over this weekend.....I hope we all don't wash away over the side!

Next year.....buying the hard sided pool......because seriously if it springs one more leak in the air ring I'm going to fill it full of "fix a flat" and call it summer!