One step closer...

Sorry I've been horribly neglectful of this blog and truly have been wanting to get it going again but life keeps getting in my way. 

Anyways...

Last summer my mother could tell my poor back was about to give out while attempting to keep up with all the mowing of her lawn (around 2.5 acres and more if you include the old orchard) and told me she was going to get me a hot tub.  I was like, sure you are once you see how $$$ they are!  So I decided to call up a good friend of mine that happens to be in that line of business and took mother down to look them over and give her a dose of reality. 

Fast forward to present and hopefully by the first of August, my hot tub will be sitting on my nice sturdy new deck with me in it basking in all the wonderful hot foamy water...My Mother totally blew me out of the water by being doggedly persistent even after hearing the price.  Kept driving Ron nuts about where we would put it because we'd better be deciding because she was getting me one.

For my 50th birthday (this past Spring), I was treated to a nice long weekend in Pigeon Forge, TN and the cabin we rented had a hot tub (I made sure of this) and my goal was to get mother IN the hot tub so she could see first hand how wonderful they are!  Well, needless to say, I got her IN the tub for all of about 5 minutes and during this time, all she could do was say "I can't breathe, there's way to much water here for my liking!"  And that was without the jets going!  Poor mother!  She later stated that she actually enjoyed it (yeah right!) 

Does she look like she's not breathing?  I don't think so either but who am I to say! lol  She did say that she will get in the one that she bought (again...yeah right!)  But don't be surprised if you stumble upon this blog and there is a photo of my beloved little mother in my hot tub!  She is an amazing lady and I wouldn't put it past her! 

Bad news is that in order to get said hot tub installed, we have to upgrade our electric service...can we say that between building the 16x18 deck (cost roughly $3500 with the hubs doing all the labor) not to mention the actual cost of the tub, this was not anticipated but according to the hubs is necessary to keep us from blowing the main breaker.  So we have a tentative date of July 22 for this phase of our little project scheduled.  Then once we get that all updated...the tub will be delivered, setup and filled and within roughly 24 hours, this ole Puddle will be languishing in happiness!  I may even have to take the day off, who knows! 

Counting down the days...