Things go wrong in threes. That’s what they say, right? So if that’s the case, we’re done. First, the roof. A leak. Fortunately, insurance wrote us a new roof.

Second, the lawnmower. Two hundred dollars to fix it. I could have bought a new lawnmower for that. Of course, it would have been a cheap piece of junk, but the fact stands.

Then the dishwasher. We paid a repairman $75 to tell us what I thought I knew: the main board was gone. So we went to a few places looking for a replacement, including a local appliance store that sells the crazy cabinet-depth $20,000 Sub-Zero refrigerators. You’d think that’s the last place to find a deal, but we did indeed find a deal. The real deal: they had it in stock. Big-box stores didn’t, and we’d still have to wait weeks for delivery.

So we got the dishwasher installed, ready to go. We’re waiting on the roofing company to catch up with their work that’s been thrown off schedule with all the rain. And I’ve already used the mower once. Are we past the threes? Who knows.