May 11, 2007 - Ah, homeownership...

The ups, the downs :)

On Friday night, I found the rec room carpeting flooded with water from the main water pipe left open mistakenly by a plumber that had to be called for a separate issue on Thursday morning... (needless to say, the plumbing company had the problem taken care of since it was their plumber's fault).

Here's the damage (now fixed and at least it got me to organize the many boxes that were still waiting to be unpacked in the rec room!)

Check out the backyard after a first pass at mowing the grass with my new push lawnmower (Colin was sad to see the backyard jungle go!)

And finally, the front yard with the blooming pear (?) tree! We (mostly Papa Staley but I helped too) got the landscaping into shape and the backyard looks much better too!