Last week

Last week was a rude introduction into homeownership. Towards the beginning of the week, Robyn was in the house while Taylor napped and heard a loud noise outside. She went out to see what happened and was very surprised to find that a 40-50 foot tall tree in our backyard fell on top of another 40-50 foot tall tree and both were propped up on our neighbor's fence. We're very blessed to have great neighbors and they told us not to worry about it and said they'd help us cut them the rest of the way down. Then a day or two later Robyn is home alone and starts doing laundry. A little while after she started she walked into the bedroom and there was standing water covering about 1/3 of the bedroom floor. I rush home from work and help sop up the water until we run out of towels. I call the plumber, who showed up not very long later, and he runs a snake down a pipe and pulls out a big ball of roots that grew into the pipe, causing a block, causing the water to back up to the toilet.

That's the short version of both stories. Both had us frustrated at the time (the plumbing problem more so), but both could have been a lot worse. Hopefully this week won't see any big problems like that!