Wednesday.. Hot water, baths and the pool.

 Picture of the day.

Now for today’s stuff:

I was in the first grade before we had running Hot water and a bath tub. Until then mama heated water on the kitchen stove and put it in a wash tub for baths, girls first then boys. Sherry was raised in a mill house and did not have a bath tub.  We both know how nice a bathtub or shower is.

Are you addicted to a hometown? My girl is. As a builder I (we) built a nice home in Mt. Holly NC. But that was NOT Belmont. From the time I took her away from Belmont, and for about 25-30 years she always talked about finding a home in Belmont, so she could be back home.

One day I found a lot on South Main St. in Belmont. She nearly giggled as we looked thru plan books. WE agreed on a set of plans that was a large ‘L’ shape.

Her sister Lennie had a back yard swimming pool. WE and the grands had fun there. For a couple years I helped open and close the pool. I learned it was work and expensive. I refused to ever have a pool. Too much work.

AS I looked at the plans, I saw the perfect place for a swimming pool. Just square the ‘L’ shape house up and install a pool. Sounded great to her.

So we did. There were no indoor pools in town, I checked with contractors in neighboring towns, NADA. I found a Pool man, he had never done an inside pool. BUT we worked thru the problems.

 WE thoroughly enjoyed the heated pool all year round.

This is the back corner that I filled in on the plans for the pool It had sliding glass doors two sides for the summer.

Of course it was a concrete inground pool.

Under construction, pumping the concrete. I decided it would be much easier to install the pool first then enclosed..

My Lumber man told me to use Canadian Cedar to line the room and NEVER paint it.

The pool bathroom was the brown door you see. WE had a sliding glass door from our bedroom into the pool room. Just to the right of the glass doors is a door and window coming toward you, that was my office.

I made one BIG mistake.  WE paid for a separate heating system that was NEVER turned on. It is probably brand new to this day.  The pool stayed heated at 92 degrees, so of course NO heating system was EVER needed. LOL

Mark and Corinne had Shereece's Birthday party at the pool.

                                        It was fun at night too!

Nite Shipslog

PS: Life is good. Especially after a bad bump!...