Pool is being dug!

They started to dig the pool yesterday.

The digging chaps - Luis and Jose, turned up at about 8:30. Chris (from Mr Carlos Pools) wasn't there yet - "He's always late" they said. They spent the time measuring and marking and stuff, while we waited for Chris.

Once we'd measured and marked, we realized that because we had to move the pool (because of the neighbors) we didn't have much space at one side, and there was a tree in the way - so we had to remove the tree. When we removed the tree, there was some paving that looked out of place, so we decided to remove that too. They were pretty flexible about all of this - and didn't seem to mind when everything had to stop while we decided whether to build a little wall (no - too expensive) and to put more soil in some places.

The people doing the digging seem to know what they are doing, they do lots of measuring, but they also think about what kind of soil goes where - when they remove the lower clay soil, they put that in the dump truck, when they remove the darker topsoil, they put that in the areas that are going to become lawn.

Anyway, here's a video. There's a nine hour video, a 10 minute video, and a 2 minute video. Given the average attention span of the reader of this blog I expect you haven't even reached here. But assuming you have, here's the 10 minute version (complete with Youtube's randomly chosen music).