Monsoon Season

When we first got home a few days ago I noticed something in the lake behind our house.  From a distance I thought it was some type of  USGF test on the lake and/or inhabitants, but upon closer inspection I realized it was our umbrella.  Since monsoon season has started we have been fishing things both out of the lake and our pool.  You would think after three weeks here we would remember to tie down the umbrella and put things away.  Not so.  I came home today to find our umbrella in the swimming pool and pool raft in the lake.  This time the umbrella was easy to fetch out -- unlike Saturday trying to retrieve it from the lake.

Since we didn't have a boat and none of our neighbors were home we had to let the umbrella circle the lake an untold number of times until we were able to rescue it 15 hours later.  It was stinky and dirty but very much intact.  Yep, monsoon season is keeping us busy.  Regardless -- we are loving our house and our Chandler location.  It could only be more perfect if Jace were here with us.