It's a shame to waste diatomaceous earth on a pool. That Rambi. I think we should drain her pool and fill it with something. Like jello, or jelly beans (jello might be dangerous), or charcoal, or just plain dirt and let Coby build a house.
I like jelly beans. I wonder what the buoyancy would be.
Pools are probably like environmental nightmares. I'm pretty sure of that, without dredging up the enviro-depressors. I think I would fill it with dark "pea gravel" ~ soft round stones that are very pleasant to walk on and sit in. People who relax find them irresistible to play with, and put on some neat rocks with lichens and moss. I think I would do something with some part of the depth, too, though I'm not sure what yet.
Pea gravel is cheap. It's also the lowest "energy-content" material on earth. (It requires the least energy and materials in it's production.)
Pea gravel feels great on bare feet. Wow, does it. It's cozy and cushy. There are always little gem rocks to pull out and set on some surface. Then you take them in the house, or throw them back. Some people are not as discerning pea gravel pickers as others. But that's okay. Throw theirs back after they leave.
Set some cool things out there, like glass round things, thick things that won't break, like a russian net float and an antique coke bottle, solid glass eggs, ~ and lunch in apricot colored bowls. Flower pots or blooming cacti can be embedded and rotated in and out during bloom cycle with ease. Cereusly. Color contrasts against the gravel are brilliant. More so, way, than concrete.
These gravel-lawn fields can be made with porous bottoms, so trees can live ~ not concrete.
You can make special chairs and loungers that float in the gravel, while you play with your toes, and sway your hands over the sides. Drinks stand up in it.
SPILLS ARE A BREEZE! Hosem.
Dropped stuff doesn't tend to break, like on concrete. No wood decking to re-grow and replace.
Wet the gravel with a hose and you can cool an area.
I could go on indefinitely, I assure, but I need my noon morning shower. Oh. You can also set up an out door shower, a very nice and exotic and decorative one, in the pea gravel; with a pea gravel floor.
BTW, the best hot springs in the world, imho, have pea-gravel pool floors.
Pea-gravel. America's neglected material.
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