“The Case of the Disappearing Tape Measure”
“The Mysterious Meow: The Cat That Got Trapped Under the Floor”
“Out of Square: The House That Shifted in Six Dimensions”
“Wedged for Eternity: The Case of the Immovable Cut Nail”
“Plastered: The Case of the Never-Ending Dust Cloud”
“The Junction Box Puzzle”
“Off Center: The Holes That Refused to Align”
“The Case of the Elusive Electrician”
“A Bathtub in the Foyer”
“Here There Be Bats”
“Charged but Never Delivered: An Online Order Nightmare”
“Cardboard: The Case of the Ersatz Litterbox”
“The Plywood that Flipped Mid-Measure”
“Death by Dropping: The Two-Story Fall of an Adjustable Square”
“Raiders of the Lost Arc: The Buried Live Wire”
“A Ceiling to the Head”
“Shift This: The Case of the 500 Lb. Bathtub”
“The Enigma Switch”
“Broken Lead: Every Pencil”
“The Mysterious Massive Bruise”
“Skeletons in the Interstices”
“Copper: A Puzzling Labyrinth of Piping”
“The Cat That Chewed Romex”
“Weekend Nightmare: A Visit to the Home Center”
“The Case of the Crap in the Attic”
“There Will Be Blood”
“The Leftover Fasteners: It’s a Mystery”
“Wires to Nowhere”
“A Rustling Behind Walls”
“Mold: A Terrifying Tale of Old Drywall”
“The Trash Pile That Wouldn’t Stop Growing”
“Splintered: The Case of the Overworked Tweezers”
“Still Live: The Case of an Original Gas Line”
“Impossible: A Tale of OSB Optimization”
“The Case of the Always-Dead Batteries”
“WTF: A Whodunnit of Former Owners”
“The Not-So-Mysterious Death of a Bank Account”
“The Girl Who Bit Off More Than She Could Chew: A Cautionary Tale”
“The Legend of the Finished Renovation”
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LMAO! You haven’t lost your sense of humor yet. Now I know you’ll be fine. The cats are all accounted for and you are still upright with your hands on the till. Keep at it, woman. I am in awe.
This too shall pass! (Not as quickly as one might like.) Coragio!
Best wishes, David Greenwood
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Tragic comedies. Funny, and yet condolences seem mandatory.
I live in the house I grew up in. My father did all of the original “renovations” which I have subsequently re-renovated. His favorite saying was “it will last as long as I live”. In his later years I pointed out that he should be dead since I remembered him fixing whatever with those words. To say the least he was not amused. The scary part is so many of those titles fit.
Don’t forget – “The Breaker Labeled ‘Basement’ that turns off the light in the Attic”.
More mysterious is that one is actually labeled correctly!
Best. Post. Ever.
Thank you.
Lovely finished Tudor for sale on Belmont up in College Hill. (Insert evil laugh.)
It is lovely – but considerably more than I paid (even counting what I’ve since spent).
When you get this all done and you have your shop in order, and your study similarly set to rights, I have no doubt you will settle in with a suitable uisge beatha and pen a delightful memoir. Your blog is fun reading, but I suspect I am not the only one waiting for the book.
Well thanks! Could be a while though…
I’d read any or all of those titles.
That is a list any DIY person can relate to. Great list!