Tim bought 12 new smoke alarms last week to replace our 10 yr. old ones in the house. Sat. was the day to replace them. This was precipitated by his fire safety talk to the Boy Scouts 2 wks. ago. Being Tim, he really got in to it, giving them all sorts of fire safety paraphernalia to take home.
So, finding yet another excuse to wear his headlamp, he climbed the tall ladder in our living room to reach the smoke alarm at the peak of ceiling. What did the rest of us do? We all gathered in the living room to watch, of course!
He and Ben replaced 10 smoke alarms, and had to test each one. They are wired into the electrical system, so the power had to be shut off, (on the coldest day yet, 15 degrees), and then as they tested each one, because they are wired together, they ALL went off. We had an hour of dark silence intermittently interrupted by screaming sirens. Fun! For some reason, (Murphy's Law, Woodroof's Law) one of the alarms, in Abby's room went off at 2 a.m. this morning. Yea! Never a dull moment around here! That better not happen again! I'm just sayin'...
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