Gutters Where They Belong

I came home on Thursday to this:

All 45 feet of 6 inch seamless aluminum gutter, just sitting in our front yard:

Fortunately, the following day I was greeted by this sight:

Gutters! Back where they should be under our roof. In the end, we went with a local roof and gutter guy who gave us an amazingly good price that included replacing two cracked shingles. He didn't suggest capping our fascia, like one of the other guys did, and was even able to reuse all our gutter guards, which were just lying in the yard where they had fallen. We can see why this repairman is a local favorite.

And now our attention is turned to other things that are unfortunately very expensive. Our purchasing "to-do" list includes an energy audit, a tree assessment, dressers, mattress, curtains and hardware, and possibly a second bed so that we can have a double-layer bed frame. But today we had to reprioritize when we noticed that our basement windows were steamed up from a sudden heat wave. And so we bought this bad boy:

For once I decided not to research a purchase to death and just buy the number one-rated dehumidifier on Amazon. I figured if everyone else liked it, so would we. It has a tube we can run down to our drain and apparently works well, so hopefully that will help keep our basement a little dryer.

Owning a house is expensive! But at least we are still having fun.