Just looking back over my blog and I have only just realised I have made much of the hard work involved in having a spa....and absolutly nothing about how nice it is!!
As we come to the time of the year when the darker nights are coming in, I have been adding lights and candles to my spa's gazebo and the ambience the lights create is stunning!! I got some Chinese lantern type "string" lights from ebay that are solar powered and they are delightful, along with a small camping lamp and tea candles set in free standing lanterns....even on a trip to TK Maxx recently I found a gorgeous, Veniceian Jester mask, very ornate and beautifully decorated, and I have set that in the gazebo with a light behind it to shine through the eyes!!! (I always like the macarbe!) Also privacy is paramount with my camping curtians covering the windows of the gazebo...
Now because of my very "time aware" dog, my evening spa has turned into something of a routine, as Sirius gets more and more restless as 9pm approaches!! Even from 8pm he will sit under my chair in he living room, and if I dont show signes of making ready he will begin grumbling and pawing, untill I move...so it goes as follows:

4pm....switch on spa to begin heating for the evening! The lid holds a lot of the heat in but I need the extra time to get it up to 39 degrees!!

8pm....water garden if we have had no rain. I have two massive tomato plants and some 6 foot high sunflowers as well as others!

8:30pm....change into swimwear and gown, fill Sirius water bowl, and bring treats into the gazebo

8:45pm.....prepare supper, open port, and prepare mp3 with waterproof headphones!!

9pm......Sink into hot steamy bubbles, give Sirius his snacks and chill out listening to fav tunez!!

Very regimented isen't it? muhahahahahaha!!! ...and needless to say I will be late tonight as I am writing this!!....But its not the same every night and some nights I dont have a spa at all. Perhaps the weather is too cold or I have just done a water change when it will need a full 10 hours to re-heat!! or even if I can't be bothered at all or Derek will use it, or both of us! but Sirius will still want his snacks!! But saying that though, Sirius seems to like the spa as when I get in he likes to lay next to it and watch the garden!!
Ok...gotta go.....his lordship, Sirius is waiting!! :)