The 15 Association came to visit!!!!

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Jim and Gino's anniversary party

Another great party thanks to Jim, Gino and friends. Great food, Jim's turkey chilli, chicken, bratts, wieners not to mention my cucumber salad courtesy of Ina Garten (bless you, goddess!!).
Today we heard the news we need to get a new pool heater, this on top of the expense of getting the pool resurfaced tiled and brought up to code. (Final inspection tomorrow). Why is it, heater is working fine, turned off for 10 days, turned it on and now it's f*@cked! Oh well, it's not as if we had anything else to spend $3,500 on!!!! It's not as if we HAVE $3,500 to throw around!! I suppose we don't have to heat the pool like many other hotels, just like we don't HAVE to have an ice machine @#*&%$@ish.... rant over.

We are hosting the 15 Association (the deserters) this weekend. It promises to be a fun weekend with the usual suspects attending! Report and photo's to follow.

Pool is OPEN!!!!

We had a great pool opening pool party on Saturday and here we are, cutting the 'ribbon'!. All the usual misfits, miscreants and ne'er do wells ..... (oh, sorry, that was San Francisco!!!!). All our favorite people .. Dennis & AJ, Jim & Gino, even Soloman and Chris (Soddam & Gommorah),their friend Darwin (Australian I assume!).... Peter Fisk, Peter Pumper, Paul Crippan and a couple of English boys, Erich, Tony & John, Dennis & Kenny, about 15 altogether. A great time was had by all.

Stuart made pulled pork (fabulous) and I made Ina Gartens Mac and Cheese with Cheddar, Gruyere and Blue cheese as fab as the pulled pork!!!! Followed by Lemon Meringue.

Back to the pool!!!

I must say it looks awesome .. wow .... we are so pleased. Most people won't notice. We now have a line at the 4 1/2ft depth woweeeee. We are sooo modern and up to date. Check out the new tile. The pool and spa match for the first time ever. We are thrilled.
Party Saturday night, 6.00pm to celebrate the opening.

And then we have Dore Alley!!!!

What can I say about San Francisco, especially the neighbourhood beween Folsam, Mission, Market and 7th! The usual misfits, miscreants and ne'er do wells!!!!

We're Back

We are back from our 2nd annual Dore Alley weekend in San Francisco but before that, I have to tell you about the pool and spa... They are both so f@#*ing fabuloso. You can't believe how good it looks or feels. The plaster underfoot is so smooth and we now have a demarcation line at the 4.1/2 foot depth to warn stupid people they are about to go into the deep end!!!. Here's me, half pissed when the draining started.

We are now in full compliance of the VGB act of Congress and we feel so much better for the experience. The wallet doesn't appreciate the experience!! We left for San Francisco Friday Morning at 8.15. They had tiled and they were just starting to plaster. They started to fill the pool at 3.00pm Friday and it took 26 hours!! Here are some pics but they will change. I can't tell you how pleased we are but you might've guessed!!

It's started!!!!

We have started draining the pool. 35,000 gallons of 92 degree water down the drain.

The shame of it is ... all that wasted water. Oh well, we'll be filling it on Thursday with 35,000 gallons of COLD water.