The joys of home ownership

Our basement flooded. Again. The sump pump took a hiatus (I suggested perhaps the little bobber thingy was stuck) and we ended up with between two and three inches of water all over the place! For shame! But it's all okay now because my darling husband managed to fix it! How you ask? Well, first he went to Big Box store and bought a new pump. Then he took the monkey to a movie. Then he came home and attempted to exchange one pump for the other only to discover that he had no clue how to get the first one out. So off we went to Big Box store to get some hoses and fittings and stuff so he could at least get it started draining the water out until we could get the other pump undone and out. After the Big Box, we got dinner. We get home, he goes downstairs, starts putting together the new pump with the hoses and sets in down in the hole where the other pump already resides because it has to be immersed in water to work wherein it lands on the first pump which triggers it to start pumping water out! So basically, the first pump's do-hickey was stuck and just needed to be hit. But whatever because now we're going to have a nice, dry basement!