When It Rains It Pours

 Murphy's Law seems to be nipping at our heels.  Two Saturdays ago, Brandon and I went to grab a sandwich around the corner and while we were there we received a phone call from our Realtor (we are currently renting out our house back in Texas) that we had a leak in the house and that water was running out the front door. The news sent us into immediate panic mode. We called our neighbor Margaret, who is also our property manager, and she was already on her way to fix things. Seriously, everything I say about Margaret will not do her justice. She really is an amazing woman! Margaret went to work and turned the water off and began soaking up all of the water. The leak occurred in our master bathroom.  The night before (Friday) we had a plumber come out and fix some leaky faucets in the master bath and the only thing we can figure is something was turned too tight or torqued the wrong way and caused a valve to fail. We were lucky enough to have a showing on Saturday and they are the ones who found the leak. Thank God! The water leaked through the bathroom, into the carpeted master closet and through the back wall of the closet to the entry way of the house. I think we were lucky and did not suffer much damage, but we are still worried about certain areas. The plumbing company sent out a special company who brought in high powered dryers and they were able to dry everything out (with the exception of a few things).  Almost two weeks later we have everything put back together and we have tenants! However, we are still dealing with the plumbing companies. Plumbing company A (the company that came out that Friday) wants to blame it company B (who did work for us 6 months ago on the valve that failed), all the while the home warranty company, who sent both plumbers out, is doing very little. Ahhh! The joys of home ownership! We finished all of the repairs at about 7:30 on Tuesday night and Margaret gave the keys to the new tenants at 8! Whewww! Thank God for great neighbors who have helped us along the way! It would have been soooooo much harder trying to do things from Chicago without them!

Oh and did I mention that Riley (our 15lb Rat Terrier) came down with the same thing that Bexar had two weeks ago!!! Yup... so not fun. But he is doing much better now!

But in the words of the Beatles.....
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say its alright
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes!!!!