the joys of homeownership

We had toilet water in the basement last week. There was an amazing and beautifully powerful storm and then sewage came up out of our basement toilet. yum.

So we did what we thought never possible; we cleaned the basement. Only a clear threat to our health could have inspired that huge task. Yeah. We already had a ton of cleaning to do down there. Adding the fecal factor was a real bitch.


It's great to have a clean basement. But some of Matthew's musical equipment got messed up, and I had to throw away some useless but hard-to-part-with items like this;


all in all, it was a possitive thing