Lots of progress made in these last couple of weeks. Adam and I spend last week clearing debris from the basement and garage. I also tackled the dead rose "trees" (seriously these thorny bastards were taller than the crepe myrtles we had in Houston).
The house had only one owner and I'll refer to him as "AH." Apparently AH was either an engineering genius or a mad scientist (and also a bit paranoid). Adam discovered some of AH's handiwork under the basement stairwell - a DC voltage meter, a series of buttons and an exposed circuit board with several LED lights. For grins, Adam turned on the voltage meter (which worked) and then began to press several of the buttons next to it. The LED lights came on and I started getting a bit nervous about it, backing-up and advising Adam to turn it off! It looked like the nuclear launch code keypads in your old cold-war movies. We believe the wiring under the stairwell may have been AH's homemade alarm system. We found homemade keypads installed on the front/back doors and what looked to be break detectors (wires attached to metal tape around the perimeters of window panes) on all of the windows as well. Another cool thing we found was what we believe is a homemade battery charger. We also found out that AH installed the doorbell in the broom closet to ring out in the detached garage so that Mrs. AH could just ring the bell when dinner was ready (we're guessing AH spent a lot of time tinkering in his garage).
Kendall insists the basement is haunted. I told her that was preposterous. She said somebody died here! Then Adam came home and informed me that the next door neighbor told him the old guy died there...
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