Love Hate Relationship

This summer we have had some crazy storms resulting in large rainfalls. Our house+large rainfalls=STRESS! As many of you know we had a flood in our basement shortly after we purchased it and fixed it by building the great wall of Kentwood. Usually we feel very safe with our wall, except, when the power goes out. When the power goes out our sump pump doesn't work. We broke down 2 summers ago and bought a generator which has never been used until last week. Although we weren't completely stress free it saved us from a flood and from having to throw any food away after being without power 15 hours. Eric even got up in the middle of the night to check the gas and oil-what a guy! We didn't get any water and now we know we can be dry as long we have our generator. I posted one picture to show our lovely sunsets we get and why we love the pond but also two pics to show why we get very nervous.