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RE: Congrats and Excuses (with pics)
How did I miss this?? You are such a sweetie for your kind words, @jrhughes. Thank you!
But I am floored by your story (no pun intended). Good gracious, what you have been through! It's wonderful to hear that you are mostly past the devastating process of discovering and recovering from your house being gutted. I'm dying to know what happened to the guy. Hopefully he's in jail. Good luck with the rest of your home remodeling!
Thank you for your great stories and presence in the Writers' Block! It's easy to miss a shout out on here lol. Steemit definitely needs some better way of communicating peer to peer.
As for the rat bastard, despite him having stolen a definitively identifiable, custom made, and expensive tool (which could easily have been tracked down at whatever local pawn shop he hocked it to) the police displayed a revolting lack of motivation to do a damn thing about it so I contented myself with outing him on social media and he'll never live in peace, or work around here again. The house happens to be locally 'famous' and over a hundred people in town are following the restoration on a little FB group I set up for them. That many people aren't going to get me an HGTV show or anything but in a small village like this it's enough for everyone to have heard what a scumbag this guy is overnight. He's been gone and no one's heard from him for two years. I say "good riddance." I don't want to contemplate what me or my husband might do if he were accessible.
Thank goodness for social media! And it seems to me your story has a happy ending. I do think you should consider telling your whole story to a prominent newspaper. If I was a reporter, I would love a story like this!