Follow-up

Well since it's been a while since I posted, I actually have things to say:

1) the school fixed the culvert and berm, and even the path the water should take from the school to the rain sewers. Yesterday, with it's horrid downpour was a good test. Turns out my backyard will still get swampy with bad weather, and water will pool under my deck, but it took a LOT of water to do that, and even then it didn't really flow down the side of my house like before. Kudos to the school.

House is painted now. Instead of that pale green it once was (only coat on it too) I now have a "coffee" house (base was called Latte, trim is French Roast. Sara's one request was that we have a purple door, so mature Grape was placed there.

After the painting, we had an infestation of flying ants on our bedroom window. Found some ant corpses in the hamper, then found them on the floor, which led me to open the blinds to see a small platoon of them on the window... ick. 2 Applications of Raid appear to have done the trick. a 3rd application of Ortho Max Home defense is underway.

My deck stairs are tilting, due to all that rain and erosion around the deck, the stair landing is now lower on the north side, causing it to bend and crack. It's on my to-do list.

And finally: I had a dream this morning that my brother and I crashed the High school reunion of all the kids I went to school with in Missouri. (Meadowmere Elementary) It was cool (and a bit scary) that I could remember so many faces that at best I haven't seen since 1987.