Today’s adventure in Queryland started with this:

But I just couldn’t even, so I sent him to school that way. Next I set to work on this:

The diverter was toast. So after two trips to Home Depot for tools I will never use again, this happened:

I was feeling like quite the badass until, oh, this happened:

Which explains how water is getting into the hell portal basement. It’s a much bigger problem than switching out a beat up old faucet, though. This, my friends, calls for a real Bob Villa. And most likely some new gutters, since our current ones clearly work worth a crap.

So yay that I was occupied all day today, but boo I have yet another thing to obsess about. I knew I should have just kept outlining.