Although I live in a rental house, I do take care of the yard and was like "Jason" from the Friday the 13th movies with my hedge trimmer-I was pretty impressed with my efforts with all of the bushes and was looking around the yard for other things to trim!!
Hope all works out, Lexie, leaks and basements are not nice, having endured them back where I used to live-I called that house "The Money Pit."
So, I go out on my back porch after dinner-what do I see-a freakin' mouse.
The dog is useless-he looks at the mouse and heads for the neighbour's for his nightly biscuit.
"I hates meeses to peeces" is my mantra because when I lived in "The Money Pit", I had to call in exterminators to rid that place of the damned critters.....TWICE! They're not cheap.
Ugggghhhhh.....the joys of a house.