Brutkey

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🇪🇸
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca

so. Funny story.
Last night, I get home from DoorDashing and I started doing a bunch of stuff to prepare for the fire and put away things. I turned the water on to finish filling the filter and the pump bay. Then I was setting up the sprinkler for the house. Then I got totally sidetracked by the fire stuff.

Fast-forward to this morning, and apparently we have a pool a little bit of ahead of schedule . 😂😂 💧💧

I mean, it was part of the contingency plan in case the fire came. It needed to be full so that the liner was not a fire hazard, but yeah, not what I expected when I walked out of the backdoor this morning lol

So it turns out it takes about 12 hours to fill it half full. So 24 to fill it completely I assume.

This changes the build schedule sort of. The rock lining of the pond is obviously not done. Nor is the bottom intake and sprinkler plumbing.

Sometimes fate takes the wheel. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ 😂😂

Partner is excited. 🏊🏊
#poolpond #oops #fire #diy #

Water fills most of a large depression.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸🇪🇸
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca

The first trickle from filter to pool pond.

The main pond is not quite 3/4 full, but I thought it was important to make sure the filter was completely full and ready to start filtering. So I have shored up the low edges of the filter, taken away the temporary stream, and now the water is starting to flow from filter to pond. In time it will connect with the pump bay. Then I can turn on the pump and start circulating for real.

😆😆

The reason this is happening now is not the best reason. Our view to the southeast is not encouraging.

😔😔 🔥🔥
#poolpond #oops #fire #diy

The first trickle from the filter to the main pond begins. It is from one corner to another. This is not the final product, of course. I intend to make a shelf that will turn into a kind of waterfall on this end of the pond. No time for that stuff now. I shorted up a little portion of the filter pond nearest the tree. There are rocks and pebble underneath the liner. It should be fine for now, but I will have to reevaluate when I turn the pump on. A huge pillow of fire smoke rises behind the neighbours houses. Into a blue sky.
Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁🍁
@Sanderde@mstdn.ca

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca

Fingers crossed for you and the city, Chris.

Hopefully your mitigation won’t be needed and that it’s successful if it is.