The pool renovation begins Monday morning. My neighbors are going to love me – the first step is demolition featuring lots and lots of jackhammering. Although, from the sounds of things down the block this morning, someone else is also doing a little work on their see-ment pond.
I’m playing around with some different image capture utilities in order to make a time lapse movie of the process. I have a Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 hanging up outside the house to capture the action. We’ll see how it goes. The apps that make time lapse easy don’t utilize the full resolution of the camera, so the process may end up being a bit more manual than I had been hoping.
What’s funny to me so far is how everything that was under the water is actually in a different place than I thought it was when the pool was full – amazing the power of parallax error. I’m also very impressed with the little tiny sump pump that the contractors dropped off yesterday. I’ve only had it running so far for about six hours and the water level is down well more than half way. When I first saw the pump, I figured it would take all weekend for that thing to drain the water, but it looks like it’ll be empty by tonight. Finding a handy old RV drain over in the side yard helped too – now I don’t have to flood the yard with highly chlorinated pool water and put my trees in even more distress than they’ve be experiencing because of the leak.
