Clean Up Day

Why can't people show up when the say they will? We were up at 7am this morning because the chimney guy was supposed to start at 8am, apparently there is no difference between 8 and 10 because that is when he showed up. But Jeanette & I made good use of the time. While Jeanette was reorganizing the shed for winter storage, I was yanking all of the plants in the pots around the pool. Then the pots themselves were emptied of their dirt and that got dumped in the brush line behind the fence. I pulled the '35 out of the garage, and delivered the pots to Jeanette who arranged them in the garage storage closet. By the end of the morning, the pool area and most of the yard was cleaned up for fall. Tomorrow the pool will be shut down and covered for the winter. We still have to move the tiki bar into the shed but that will wait until it is closer to getting the snow blower out of the shed. Getting back to the chimney guy, he was here until about 5:30 working. The fireplace and oil heater chimneys are now both capped, so rain, snow and animals cannot get into them. The heater chimney was also installed with a liner, it is now up to fire code. But the main reason we had him come out was to re point the stone in the chimney, as water could seep into the mortar cracks and ruin the roofing job we just finished. He used a diamond wheel grinder to grind out the old mortar and then pointed the stones again. So now the entire top of our house is new again. Today's picture is one last of the look at the pool. The pool fairies come tomorrow to close the pool for the year.