Rain, and Nothing But

Normally I love rain, because it means one less day that I have to worry about whether the lawn is getting enough water and if I have to drag out the hose to water it. Not that I ever actually get the hose out to water the lawn; I just worry about it and what the neighbors will think once our grass turns brown.

But this? This is ridiculous. I can’t remember the last time we had a stretch of more than two days uninterrupted by rain.

Chris and I finally broke down and bought a dehumidifier for our basement. Or rather, I complained bitterly about how many more bugs there were in our house than last year at this time and about the strange small puddles of water that were forming on the basement floor. Chris’s argument was that there was no point in buying a dehumidifier if we were moving soon, and that a dehumidifier was a waste of money since the home inspector, three years ago and during a drier season, had said we were buying the driest basement he had ever seen.

Eventually I wore Chris down, because he loves me and because I had lifted the 20 pound can of laundry detergent to find that a giant pool of water had mysteriously formed underneath it.

Now our lives revolve around the dehumidifier. I think it holds 30 pints, and we find ourselves emptying a full bucket once a day. The dehumidifier probably fills up faster than that, but once a day of checking is all the time we have to spare to water right now.

Posted by: ssjane | June 28, 2006 | 10:59 am
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