Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Joys of Home Ownership

So since we've been back from our glorious European Vacation, our house has decided that it hates us and stuff keeps breaking...I thought I'd vent a little bit and run down the list of stuff we've had to fix or are in the process of getting fixed...our fridge broke down yet again and we decided we're tired of spending money on our crappy fridge, so we bought a new one (hooray for clearance sales!!)...with all the massive storms we got in the spring, we discovered that when they installed the deck on our house, they did it wrong and it was allowing water to seep in behind the siding and it started leaking into the basement...we got the seeping problem fixed, but now we have to probably replace some trim work in the basement because it got water damage and is molding a little bit...also due to the storms and the seeping, we got water damage on some of the siding on our house and replaced some of it with the same type of siding, and are getting some stonework put on to replace some of the other siding...the first massive storm of the year gave us roof damage and we had to replace the roof; but at least in the process of doing that, we got a couple sweet-o skylights for the upstairs bathrooms and better ventilation in the attic...our new bit of excitement was that a couple days ago we discovered that the floor drain in the utility room was stopped up, and the utility room was flooding, which then sent water into the basement, messing up the carpet and trimwork on the baseboard, so now we have to replace that...

The positive of all the rain is that we've hardly had to run the sprinklers this year, so that's nice...also, at least we're not in California where they're having all the wildfires. Speaking of which, pray for Joyful's parents. Yosemite is having some pretty heavy duty wild fires and the town where they live is on fire. They have evacuated to Ed's house in San Jose, so they're safe, but their house is in the zone that the fires are currently, so their house is in pretty good danger of being burned up.

So I guess what I'm saying is that while it sucks that we've having problems with water damage on our house this year, at least we have a house to have problems with...

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