Something I Love

Today feels pretty rotten, and it's only just beginning.  Yesterday I discovered a massive mildew issue in our basement.  Most of it right now is isolated to our food storage room, which is good and bad.  Good that it's mainly only in 1 room, bad that the room happened to be where we store our food.

Thankfully (trying to be thankful), most of the food is fine.  The shelves are fine.

However, the whole room will need to be anti-mildew/keep-the-water-out painted so we can avoid the problem in the future, the stick-on floor tile is dead, some drawers are ruined (which totally sucks.  They were awesome), and we'll need to purchase a de-humidifier so we don't lose anything else.  In the next room over, the toy room, the wood paneling will need to be torn down.  Which isn't super sad.  It was water damaged already, from years back.  But still.  Just means more work.

What's funny about the whole thing, to me, is that it was just last week when I turned to Rob and said, "No more home projects.  We're done with them for at least a year."  Ha.  ...  Somewhere there's something to be thankful for.  Oh!  I'm thankful that we weren't mid-another-project when I discovered the mildew.  There.

Who knew that the central air that we chose not to replace was dehumidifying the basement, and that that one simple thing would be such a big deal.  Add to it that this spring has been the wettest on record, and that our basement isn't water-proof anyway, ...  Thankfulness is eluding me.  Uh, ... I'm grateful that there isn't standing water 3 inches deep in my basement?  I'm grateful that I live in a good house?  I'm grateful I'm healthy?  ...  It's not working.

But this is something that I love:

Check it out.  Love our garden.  Boysenberries, strawberries, zucchini, summer squash, tomatoes, bell peppers, broccoli, kale, potatoes, garlic, watermelon, green beans, cucumber, and a carrot.  Already we've had fresh kale and fresh strawberries (not in the same dish).  Awesome.  We'll add one more garden box this fall and then that will be enough space for everything we want.

Also, I love this:

There's definitely enough to be thankful for.