Home again, home again, jiggity, jig.......

After a nice weekend in the desert we are finally home.  We ate, napped and hung around the pool and got ourselves ready for the real world for 3 glorious days.  Of course it's always a hoot to come home and find out what your house has been doing in your absence.  Our house has been busy.
The sprinkler/drip system decided to also go on vacation.  We have an awful lot of dead plants in one "zone" of the yard as the drip tube came apart and it apparently has been like Old Faithful around here every time the sprinkler came on. Can't wait for the next water bill.  However, the "Old Faithful"watering system may have ignored one "zone"...but it rained plentifully on another.  So we have an AMAZING weed garden where we should have had nothing. Our tomatoes may survive or may not. The front yard looks as if the home is in foreclosure....I'm sure the neighbors like that.  One of our neighbors left us a note asking if they could "borrow" our water to steam clean their carpets since theirs was turned off.  Borrow always make me think that it will be "returned"....not sure how that works with water exactly. Since we didn't answer them, they did in fact "borrow" some and who knows what additional havoc that wreaked on the whole "old faithful" issue. It was 4:45 in the laundry room for heaven knows how many days and we'll never know if that was A.M. or P.M. The mold was growing like gangbusters in the bedroom toilet but apparently didn't like the front bathroom toilet because it was pristine. Either the newspaper actually wasn't delivered or a kindly neighbor has been reading it in our absence. Someone must have come in the house and run the water through the PUR filter in the kitchen long enough to fill a bathtub as the filter (which was brand new and illuminated "green" on the dial when we left) was now blinking "red, red, red! The car had a dead battery and the "cobs" have been busily spinning their webs throughout the house.  Ever seen one? Me either....only the webs they leave behind. But, in the end, the house didn't flood nor burn down so it was a successful homecoming.
I will probably have one or two more posts with a list of things I was glad I took on this trip and some things I could have done without as well and things I hope to have before the next adventure.