The joys of home ownership

As Rick was visiting us last March in preparation to move to Iowa City, we had heavy rains and a heavy melting snowpack -- and we had so much water around that we had water leaking in one corner of the guest bedroom. Pooh. So we had the fill and landscape wall under the back porch reworked, and at the end of the job we had our contractor look at the corner where the leak had happened. It turned out that the leak was anything but new, and there was significant water damage in the corner and under the edges of the window.
The picture shows the damage from the inside; you can see daylight at the corner of the window where the sheathing had rotted from poor window installation, and you might be able to see the damage in the lower left corner. The view from the outside shows the repair of the lower part of the wall, but further damage was found below the upper window and we had to replace sheathing below that window and around the dryer vent. Quite a job, but it feels good to do it right. Next year -- we're going to look at the other windows in the back, because some of them probably have the same problem. Oh, the joys of home ownership...