week. Seems I need one of those because they built the house at a lower elevation than the leach field. At least it wasn’t another $2000 well pump. Or 25k to replace the deck that rotted out a couple years ago. Re-doing the fence section that was damaged by the same tree I cut down that did most of the demolition work on the deck is going to be another several hundred (though I think we should put that off a while and leave the redneck halfass job up for a bit until money’s a little more free). New roof? Yeah, that’s expensive (three years ago). Repacking a driveway? Expensive...(last year) Dealing with a prick lying propane delivery guy who doesn’t want to drive down the asphalt driveway in winter because it’s a little icy? An incredible headache, but didn’t actually cost money in the end.

leaking water into my living room Wednesday night in a thunderstorm.

Now I need new French doors, and I've got warped floorboards. It was lots of fun going up on a ladder to nail a tarp to the house in the driving rain to shunt some of that water away from the doors.

It's going to cost me a couple grand to fix all this I expect. Good times.

a giant bulge of water formed behind the paint in our dining area. My husband sliced open the paint to control how fast the water came in. Before we could repair the walls and repaint, we had to figure how the water got there in the first place because it wasn't the roof leaking.

Not fun times.

All the water overwhelmed the gutters and backed up under the shingles. My husband had to put some metal thing on the roof to redirect the water. Problem solved.

Since buying our first house.

The rule? Everything costs $1500.

was in line with the price of the other sorts of jobs you can find there.