From Pool To Haven: Part 1

When we bought our house, many years ago, there was an above-ground pool in the back yard. When our children were younger, it was a wonderful thing to have. But even then, we didn’t use it much–between work, baseball games, and erratic upstate New York weather, there was never enough time to really enjoy it. Our children went to day camp in the summers, and most of the time, that included swimming, so they weren’t deprived.

Three years ago, we opened the pool, but a harsh winter left the water a particularly nasty shade of yuck we could not chemical away. The following two years, we didn’t even bother to open it. Our children are grown and mostly gone. We decided that’s what should happen to the pool: gone.

Craig’s List yielded no takers. So we called the scrappers to come and get it.

Scrappers will come and take down the whole thing if you let them have it. It didn’t cost us a penny.

They were efficient and neat about it, too.

But now what? My back lawn can’t remain like this.

Stay tuned . . .