A Room With A View

Our room with a beautiful view of the Manasquan River.

The contractors finished up the pool a few weeks ago

 and we have been enjoying it ever since.

I really like the look of the stamped concrete...

this will hold up much better than brick pavers and there will not be any settling.

And best of all, no weeds!

I also really like the little border they built around the pool area.

I could not be happier with the entire job.

We have our chairs...I need better little tables,

we have even more floats to inflate,

but have found these "noodles" to be most comfortable for us.

Float storage, "some assembly required"...

poor hubs, that thing came in an envelope and the directions looked like a novel!

You may remember that the birds chewed holes in the retractable awning.

We replaced it and the birds are back.

Every. single. day. we have to knock the nest out of the frame of the awning.

They aren't getting it, it's been weeks and they come back every day!

The hubs hung the pretty lights for me, I am a lover of lights.

It's a salt water pool, the new thing, but it feels the same...it does not feel like the ocean.

The water is crisp, clear and very refreshing!

Everything is new, so everything is working well, including the new, automatic vacuum.

It was a lot of work for the hubs,

preparing the yard before they started and there were a lot of finishing touches left up to him.

He also scrubbed all of the outdoor lights and painted them,

installed a lot of new sod after they were done

and he had to fix a lot of the sprinkler heads that were damaged during the work.

He did a lot more, 

he was busy every day...it's wonderful to see him enjoying the pool now!