Florida

The weather has been against us for pool progress this week, with regular afternoon downpours preventing work or threatening to wash away what’s been done! Still, we are seeing progress, with the coping stones all around the pool and hot tub being installed over the last two days:

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I still can’t decide if there is a pattern to the pavers, or if it’s just random!

Hopefully the weather will allow more work tomorrow; while many pavers are down now, the rest all require cutting against the curved pool and hot tub, or cutting to fit to the house walls, so I expect slower progress to get the rest done.

I found an image online of an aerial view of Orange County, taken back in 1994; I cropped it down to the area of Independence around us, and then cropped the same view from Google satellite images – the resulting comparison is quite interesting:

(click the image for bigger, slower animated, version)

One thing that’s clear is that the Daniel Webster Western Beltway I-429 didn’t exist 20 years ago (the piece here was opened in 2002); also visible is that most of Independence was not built, though the area bottom right in this image was already cleared in 1994. The area left of Lake Speer, to Lake Joval, where our home is built, looks like trees and a few pathways, twenty years ago.

(image created with GIFMaker.me)

After a very long day of work yesterday, and more hours today, the latest crew has stuccoed and painted the concrete of our pool / deck enclosure, to nicely match the house! Now we’re looking forward to seeing the pavers go down …

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