Ode to a Kitchen Window

It rained last night...I know that's not a big deal to those of you who live in places where it rains but around here it doesn't happen all that often and, since we're living in a new house, rain means a huge ordeal.

I woke up last night b/c the air smelled like water (kind of weird, I know but again, rain isn't the norm) and thought 'dang it. It's the middle of the night and I have to get out of bed just b/c it's raining'. So I got up and started closing windows...turns out that wasn't necessary but it's a new house so what do I know.

It rained about an hour and for pretty much the entire hour rain was gushing in from any and every hole in the wall. We don't just have holes in the walls but I mean like air coolers and windows and doors. Remember how I talked about the workers putting in really nice things for us? Well we have these amazing windows. They close tightly and are even weather sealed. I haven't seen anything like them since I moved to the Sandbox...too bad they didn't fill the gaps between the cement in the wall and the frame of the window!!! So I guess the problem isn't necessarily with the window but more with the wall? I don't know.

What I do know is that in the middle of the night I was throwing things out of unpacked boxes, desperately trying to find any towels to clog up the holes. Guess if I wanted to be really optimistic it was a jumpstart to the unpacking. And the electricity did stay on the whole time so at least I wasn't trying to do all this in the dark.

But then there was the kitchen window. It didn't leak, not one drop. The only window in the entire house that did not leak like an open faucet. It was even on the 'wrong' side of the house, the side where the wind was blowing the rain in. So yep, all these fancy windows and one of them has fulfilled it's purpose....now to try and track someone down who understands the concept of a window keeping out rain and dirt and can somehow fix our problems.

On another note, one of the fancy air coolers caught on fire last night. We turned it on and 5 minutes later the house was filling up with smoke. So we turned it off but what else can you really do but stand and look up at it, hoping that the smoke will stop coming. It did eventually, but only after the entire house was filled with that wonderful burning motor/melting rubber smell. We left the windows open to hopefully help to air it out...then it rained...there's just never a dull moment around here!