First Rain

Ever wonder what happens when it rains during the framing stage? Well, sometimes it looks a little like this:

This was the scene I walked into on Saturday afternoon. I immediately placed a panicked call to our contractor, who assured me that I did not need to worry or do a single thing. I’m a big believer in hiring people you trust, and doing what they say. But I also grew up on the East Coast, in a house with a basement that flooded whenever it rained, and I learned at a very young age that standing water is bad. Which is why I spent the next few hours scooping up the water with a dustpan into a Home Depot bucket which I then tipped out the window. Reader, I filled that bucket up five times.