(I had a huge, wonderful blog post here detailing our entire build, and then lost the whole flipping thing...this is a brief, but horrible rendition of said original). Jake and I are excited to announce that we have officially begun the process of building a pool in the back yard! Today we finalized and signed the contract with our pool builder, JRI Pools (Fayetteville, GA) and mailed our deposit --- things are getting real. They are scheduled to begin the dig next Friday or the following Monday, and supposedly it will take 4 to 6 weeks (although I am betting on more like 8 to 10 weeks as I'm certain there will be at least one torrential rainstorm every other day once they begin). Zella is our primary reason for putting a pool in at this moment in time. Initially we thought we would ... [Read More]