The decision to have a house in Temecula did not sit well with the younger members of the family especially my teenage son. I do not blame him as it is far from his friends. It must be unsettling for him to imagine that when he goes away to college he would come "home" to a new location. My daughter feels it too but because she has been at college the past almost 3 years, the impact is "less." Her friends being older can and do come out to her. I am hoping that now that my son is driving, he will be less upset about it.
We looked at the big picture and decided we would put in a pool to entice our almost adult children to come visit us when they have left home. It would be a place for their friends to hang out as well. Building the pool was the first landscape project we did as it involved huge machinery, lots of digging, moving of earth, laying of pipes and electrical. We did not want any planting to be damaged in the construction that invariably happens.
