The animals are coming two by two...

So to make a long story short (trust me, I just deleted the long story, it's boring, I'm not a good enough writer to make it interesting) we had water in our basement last night. It rained pretty hard here, and our sump pump couldn't keep up with it. We had very little damage, the floor drain actually took care of what what the sump pump didn't, but it was a hair-raising half hour before the water started subsiding. I called a 24 hour plumber, fortunately I was able to cancel before he came, I shudder to think what that house call would have set us back.

We now have new motivation to do the landscaping we've known we've needed since we bought the house. All the water from the next street over drains through our lot, and last night, most of it came through our basement.

In the midst of cleaning up this morning, I was reminded of how grateful I am that this is the worst thing that's happened to us this week. All in all, we're doing pretty well.