Although we didn't move in for about four weeks after we bought the house, since we were having the wood floors redone, we did enjoy hosting a few pool parties during the month of September. And then once we moved in, I was able to enjoy the lap swims I had dreamed about! Thanks to lovely weather and the pool heater, we were able to swim until the second week of October. When the pool company came out to close the pool, it was a cold, windy, sad day. Already counting down the days until our May reopen!
In short order, we all became experts at cleaning leaves off the covers and in the traps! There isn't a lot of chemical maintenance for the water since it's a salt water pool, but we'll learn more next season when we have 5-6 months of pool season instead of two. Closing day involves the pool company draining the hot tub, lowering the water level to flush all the pipes, removing the diving board, basketball hoop and stair rails, and plugging up stuff so it doesn't freeze. I'm getting used to seeing the pool covered. It "helps" that it quickly got cold and we haven't been in the back as much.
