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I was looking at those automated covers..they are pretty slick in operation. Going with a manual cover that works like a convertible top and folds back. Want it open to the sky for starry nights...

It uses salt... 10x10, room for 7, so should be comfortable for two. Will have a folding cover. USB stereo system. 43 adjustable jets. Back massage. We thought about getting a swim spa, but realized a traditional hot tub will be way more useful for aches and pains. My sister w/ her arthritis and my hips and knees will benefit from this more than a pool right now...though we have plenty of room for a pool later. Getting a 12 x 12 slab put in the yard to install it on, connected to the back patio, have some landscaping ideas for improving the yard over time. Will be a really nice place to spend time..

I've got a lot of ideas for trees and flower beds, etc. all in due time.

@Robert Hall Found this site as I am researching for myself a hot tub with cover and a fire pit area as my son's family and grandkids love to hang out and make smore's. Like many ideas from here. 22 Hot Tub Privacy Ideas for Every Budget (freshpatio.com) I am really liking these sunroom style hottub enclosures so you can see the sky and also cut wind and snow from the tub. Retractable hot tub enclosure Oasis | sunrooms-enclosures.com

@trinacriabob All the bolded parts... I got an opinion on this. It might not be a pretty opinion. Nor a popular one. But I have to say it. There is a culture in the US that praises being dumb. There is a culture in the US that frowns upon being smart. Both are not the same but both are being worshipped. And this culture has been cultivated for decades now. DECADES with an 's'. I dont know how or when it started but I do know that some '80s movies hinted at that. PLENTY of 90s TV shows and movies DEFINETELY pointed us to that kind of culture of hating smart people and worshipping stupid. Shows like Beavus and Butthead. The Jackass movies although those came at the tail end of the 1990s are prime examples but NOT the only ones. There are MANY MANY more. We could chalk it up to comedy, but when we do chalk it up to comedy, we fail to see the sinister side of it. You see, I do not think it will get any better. It will get worse. A lot worse. And it does not matter what political spectrum you fall on. Red or blue. The dummying down of our society grows every year and both the left and right side of the political spectrum is more than happy to contribute to that. And its not just the white trash. Its the black folk as well. Beavus and butthead covers the white trash pop culture but plenty of shytty rap music that focuses on black people's lack of education sure exists. Remember the debacle in the 90s of some black higher ups wanting to promote ebonics as a legit English way of speaking for black people and it was to be taught in schools for black people? Ebonics also being the primary way of rapping in the aforementioned rap music... From celebrating gang culture and violence to letting politicians become fascists and suing teachers for showing a Disney movie because there is a gay character in the movie/cartoon and banning books and us letting them do that because we have become sooooooo stupid ourselves that we do not know what to do anymore but we are proud of the stupid decisions we allow our politicians to make and are even prouder of our own moronic behaviour. We celebrate stupid and denounce smart every chance we get in North America. For political gain and for comedy. And the citizens just soak all that up and willingly follow. From the Kardashians and Lizzo. From thinking that we will colonize Mars... No water or oxygen on the planet Mars, but NOBODY questions Elon on HOW the phoque we will colonize Mars. And I mean NOBODY questions him.... Not ONE son of a 2-itch has asked him how in the Lord's good name are we going to survive up there? From thoughts and prayers when public shootings happen and dont demand anything more... From fighting with ourselves for the stupidest of things..like NOT listening to doctors and scientists and making a mockery of them but listening to some stupid unknown clowns on the internet suggesting LETHAL recommendations and we listen to those clowns instead. From having a bold face lie EXPOSED but be toooooo phoquing proud to admit being fooled. The kicker... believing bold faced lies decades prior from KNOWN liars because toooooo proud being politically and religiously attached and now to try to fix prior bamboozlements rather than admit being stupid DOUBLE-ING DOWN ON STUPID BEING PROUD OF BEING STUPID and believing other bold faced lies. And yet....WILLINGLY not wanting to get smarter but wanting to stay dumb. Afraid of being smarter. But openly being dumb. And THAT includes the political divisiveness. The economical mess we have of no jobs and the middle class almost gone from North America to even electric car adoption that is full of FUD. And both the so called left and right are equally responsible for that. And us North American citizens are to blame for letting it get this bad BECAUSE we have allowed ourselves to hate wanting to be smart and be content and proud to be stupid. Oh yeah...I got another example Our judges allowing frivolous lawsuits to happen and awarding DUMB behaviour. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/mcdonalds-found-liable-for-hot-chicken-mcnugget-that-burned-girl McDonald's is liable for McNugget being too hot because DUMB phoquing mothert gave her 4 year old a scorching hot nugget that fell on the child's thigh in the drive through scalding the poor child. Personal responsibilty OUT THE WINDOW!!! Like I said...dummying down of our society...

I have a family member that grew up in the south and while Hubie is a hard worker and no doubt loves his wife, his lack of education shows up as he never finished high school. He uses those terms all the time and while his wife tries to gently correct him, he always questions why as in his mind it a compliment to any man or woman he thinks is good. A very different way of thinking, communicating and it is thankfully going away as the generations change and more people better themselves through education. Course with that said, I find it interesting that Florida thinks they can tell schools how to spend their federal funding. I have a small worry that we will see a very diverse split in education between conservative states and more liberal states.