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<p>Lol. Nice use of Pat Robertson imagery, sabaray 
…and when it comes to heating the pool, I might resemble that remark!</p>
<p>The team that invented these plexi-sleeve enclosures are unsurprisingly from Canada, where the pool season can be mercilessly short in some areas. They’re actually rated for snow load just like a roof and look like a big sun room…except its on tracks that allow you to roll the segments to the end to “open it” for summer. If you have a pool that runs along a straight back wall, it can be engineered for about the cost of a mid-sized sedan. </p>
<p>But if like me, you have an odd shape, a wall that “Ls” and a geometrically enclosing terrace with another barn-like structure at the end (the “pool house” that started life as a 2-story pole barn) then it becomes quite a challenge and more expensive to do than constructing a new gunnite pool with all the bells and whistles, which mine is not. The other issue in my case is I would not trade or muck up the landscaping on the terrace and the permanent end of the structure would to me be an eyesore in the summer.</p>
<p>So in my case, it’s entirely impractical and out of scope with the pool itself. The second way in which its impractical is that it would double the gas bill in winter. But if I knew for sure i could find a way perhaps to die at home instead of shelling out great gobs of cash to assisted living one day, and became a shut in with a warm pool to float around in all winter, heck, I’d probably still do it :)</p>
<p>My second pool-related fantasy is also brought to us compliments of bored Canadian engineers…the ice rink conversion kit That one involves some space age structural material plus a refrigerant system to maintain serious ice. That’s the kind of thing I might do if I had a kid in a hockey program or figure skater or grandchildren living nearby. My mother was a figure skater who had me instead of going pro (but was heavily recruited to go pro.) my one regret was never learning to skate! Must be genetic :)</p>
<p>Between the bouts of cold rain here, we had a few beautiful hours of gorgeous weather, sun with beautiful sculpted clouds, outstanding fall color. And that was exactly the time my in laws turned up to sit in the house and waste the weather, though I made a nobel attempt to get them out on the trail.</p>
<p>No dice. Yet FIL, at 85, was complaining about his muscles wasting even though he works out 3 times a week. I suggested kettlebells for Christmas but wasn’t met with much enthusiasm. His wife, who is 63, told me he may work out but he won’t go for walks. At least now I know where mch gets his aversion to walks from!</p>
and getting the second place. How is the Ironman competitor doing?</p>