The joys of home ownership!

As you can tell from the past few posts, Saturday was a very busy day for us! But, of all the things we did, this takes the prize for least enjoyable! Late last week we decided to stop kidding ourselves and face the fact that our water heater was on the way out. By the middle of this week I was getting tired of luke-warm showers. Brian and I agreed that something had to be done! Luckily, we are blessed with a brother-in-law that puts in water heaters almost every day. He graciously offered to find us a deal on the water heater and then install it. WOW! He saved us a lot of money, time and grief. Some of you may find it odd that I took so many pictures of this ordeal, but this was our first big replacement in our home and I wanted to remember it. Let me briefly explain these pictures. The guys drained the water heater in our backyard. No big deal, until the end. After a while, the water started bringing out all sorts of gross stuff. It got so bad that we stopped draining the water heater and decided to just take it to the transfer station with a little left in it. The stuff that had gotten in our grass was so disgusting that Brian had to get a spoon and scoop it out of the grass and into a plastic bag. And to think we showered in that water! EWW!