Water stinks too.

Starting to see a trend here? Man, I am a debbie downer. It seems like every post I write is a complaint of something going wrong in my life. Please don't read that into this post.

This is just another funny story about the adventures of Rusty and Jennifer Woolley. We just like to keep things interesting around here...

So, I have been begging my husband for a pool. If we are going to have to live in this hot city, I at least need a place to cool off. But before we committed to the investment of a pool, he wanted to see if I would actually use it.

He agreed to buy me this in the meantime, just to see how much use it would actually get. Sure, it was a little tacky, but we figured if we spent $200 and only used it for one summer, that would be better than putting in a pool and never using it!

Well, being the stellar construction genius' that we are, we did not realize that you cannot put the pool right into the corner of the house. Especially if you have our luck. Because if you do, you will get to use the pool for one day before a hurricane comes to Mexico bringing tons of rain to Houston. And with the pool right up against the brick, water will get trapped in the corner and flood into your house. 

I came home yesterday afternoon to get ready for a July 4th weekend trip and found this:

And we spent our night doing this:

And now my house looks like this:

So the trip was cancelled, AGAIN. 

We are living upstairs for now. The sheetrock guys are coming next week to pull out all of the wet sheetrock. Then that will have to air out for a week before we can rebuild and lay new floors. 

We are not sure if insurance is going to cover this because it might be considered "flood", but we are praying that they do! Either way, I guess I get new floors out of the deal! :)

And I get a weekend at home to get caught up on my very long "To Do" list. I guess we just aren't meant to take any trips this summer!

Happy 4th, everyone! Hope your weekend is less eventful than ours!