Nearly full.

Almost 2 weeks now since we emptied the pool and began to clean it out.  Then we had a grotty weather weekend - quite cool, definitely damp and windy.  Not the time to be working in the pool, but since May day on the 1st, it's been sunny.  So after sanding and rinsing and waiting for it to dry out again, we have painted the entire pool.   We did half on Thursday morning - the shady half, a bit more late in the afternoon as the sun moved round and finished it early evening. Yesterday was our watering day so we used it to fill the pool.  The water runs down from the main deposito into a small tank, when it's running clear (we are the 'end of the line' from the deposito so there are always lots of leaves and stuff to run through before it comes clear)  then we pump it into our pool, that way we can see that it's running clean.  The overflow goes on down to our bottom land and waters the olives down there.  If anyone further upstream decided to use our water on our day - and they do even though they shouldn't - changing the acequia gates muddies  the water but at least we can see it's happened and stop the pump.

But yesterday was a rarity in that we had all our acequia water for all our hours completely uninterrupted.  I can't think the last time that happened,  we nearly always get a reduced flow as someone takes some of the water and a fortnight ago the water completely stopped and when I went  to see why,  I found the main deposito tap had been closed. 

But by 6pm last night we had nearly filled the pool,  and with the trickle of running water that came overnight via the hosepipe,   this morning it was nearly at the top.  According to the thermometer in the float, the water temperature is 22°.  The temperature today started at 18° at 8.30 when we had our breakfast coffee in the garden,  don't know what the high was this afternoon but the pool water is normally about the same as the maximum air temperature. 

So who will be the first one in the pool?   It may say 22° but it feels cooler - and that's just paddling,  not going right in and swimming!