Behold! The dirt hole! D'oh - I mean, the pool!

CIMG5187, originally uploaded by Clean_Freak.

This is our new pool. Voila! The big corner of dirt is called a "Shamu Shelf." It's modeled after the shallow shelf area at Sea World that Shamu uses to pop up to the pool deck during shows. In light of the recent killer whale violence against humans trend, perhaps we call it a shallow shelf rather than invoke the name of a man-eating killer species. But you'll know what we mean.