One Step Forward...Two Steps Back

For those of you who don't know,

we've decided to stop the house hunting for a while

("a while" meaning...?)

and just try to make the best of our house we have.

So, home improvements have begun.

We have painted and organized our garage.

Here's the finished product:

If anyone knows us, knows that
this is a miracle!

Our garage is always a bottomless pit and know there's a place for everything.

That's a step forward.

Now for the two steps back.

This is what a leaky swamp cooler does to walls:

We had a tiny leak that must have been leaking since the beginning of summer and ended up soaking the wall and ceiling over the door to our bathroom.

Lovely.

Lee ended up cutting away the wet drywall and vacuumed out the moldy installation.

(The leak was fixed so we can use our swamp cooler.)

Man, if this doesn't make us want to save for central air,

I don't know what will.