Spring Cleaning Plan
Amy and I discovered a clever way to spring clean this weekend.

Step 1: Flood your basement.
Step 2: Clean.
Step 3: Profit?

Okay, that third step certainly isn't the case, especially after seeing how much the plumber charged us to fix the small hole in the pipe that caused so much trouble.

Thankfully we didn't lose much. We had a moment more than a year ago where a day of heavy rain partially seeped into the basement. After that we bought shelves and put all the storage onto it. That saved us this time.

Not that cleaning up 1/4" of water in half the basement was simple. We had to drag everything outside, remove the carpet (thankfully just a big unattached rug) and remove some baseboard. Thank you Jesus for inventing the wet-dry vac (yes, Jesus invented the wet-dray vac, it's in the Bible...somewhere in the back...maybe Black & Decker 4:15-17).

There was so much stuff set out in our backyard to dry that the neighbors asked if we were having a yard sale. Sure, $50 gets you all these waterlogged boxes! It's a steal!

As we mopped and wet-dry-vacuumed up the water, we thought about the fact that we used to move about every two years, and so maybe this was a sign to go through everything again and get rid of crap we don't need. We did that and now have some more space in the basement.

The rest of the weekend was a lot of fun. We had a fun improv show on Friday night. Saturday morning (before discovering the pipe leak) we went to a farmer's market. Saturday night we went to a party. Sunday was church and then a big meal and then romping around in the dirty and mud at the local state park. So, all in all, it could've been a lot worse.