Thought I would share some electrical nightmare...

Now I haven't had enough time to demo the old wiring, but it is disconnected, not sure how Earnest died, but it is a surprise that he lasted as long as he did.
These are a few snapshots of a tree of woe, one mistake piled upon another, and another.

 Lets start here with the uncovered connection to the old knob an tube, then spliced to the newer wire, no ground.

 Which takes us over to the wall, see those two nails to secure the wire to the wall, then another splice, more nails to hold the wire to the wall.

 Two splices later see that plug, that goes to another length of wire that leads outside to a light fixture.

 And I think this was where the washer an drier went.  See that black wire, it used to go outside to the playhouse.

And lets use washer for holding lath to hold our wire to the wall...

It is no surprise that Earnest is dead, just a surprise that it took as long as it did.

But it's not all bad, I made two planter boxes for the bamboo, hope it will act as some privacy screening in the future, and maybe at some point a wind screen.

Need to work on my compound.