the little wild kingdom

[frustratedearthmother]

there's more snow out there than i thought there would be and it is also heavier than i thought

Ugh!

Hope your package gets delivered with no more issues!

 

[flowerbug]

Ugh!

Hope your package gets delivered with no more issues!

me too! it's rather rediculous the way it has worked out so far. i knew a package was on its way but was so busy it slipped my mind (plus we've had things delivered here before it should not have been a problem at all) to check on the tracking status until it got to be too late and then when i found out that it was getting close to the time limit where they'd send the package back i called them to let them know the information they needed and they had a phone number and were supposed to call me back the next day with updated information. instead of any of that happening the package was returned to the shipper. it's like they didn't even check the system to see if there were any updates and just sent it back (several hours after i'd called).

 

[flowerbug]

brrr! now have us forecast for down to 8F and gusts up to 25mph tonight.

when i was going out to shovel i checked the propane to make sure we had enough for a while (we do) as since we got the new furnace last winter i wasn't sure how much we'd burned already. i didn't think we'd be doing too bad so was glad to confirm that.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Yikes - 8 degrees! That's just not right!

 

[Mini Horses]

These temps are a disaster! I am NOT ready to have winter visit me -- even with milder than those temperatures. No, no, no! Cold is not for me

 

[flowerbug]

i don't think it got that cold last night. it sure didn't feel that way when i took the trash out this morning. there was cloud cover and that usually will keep it warmer.

 

[flowerbug]

last night i'd stayed up a bit late and went to sleep, a few minutes after i fell asleep the smoke detector way up high started chirping.

there is no fast or easy way to get to it. it involves going out in the garage, getting a ladder, bringing the ladder inside, setting the ladder up in Mom's room and climbing up on top of the area above the master bathroom and then i can reach the smoke detector to change the battery or whatever, but there is a lot of dust up there.

it being almost 2am and i'd just been woken up i forgot to take the smoke detector from my room (which is easy to get at) up there with me so i had to come back down and get it and then i didn't remember that they are not the same mounting plastic bases so i just left it hanging there for the night until i could get back up there today to replace it and get it all back how it should look.

as i was walking through the house to go back to sleep i noticed the smell of smoke which can be from people around us who burn wood for heat so it may just be that the smoke detector was being set off from what was coming through the vents in the roof.

with trash take out this morning wakeup at 6:30am i didn't get a whole lot of sleep.

today i did get the smoke detector plastic bases switched around and the chirpy smoke detector has not made a single peep.

if the one up higher keeps getting chirpy i'm going to have to put some kind of a barrier behind it to keep any air from outside coming in through that gap.

we actually have three smoke detector sockets in the house but years ago after having to replace that one (it's really hard to reach and rather dangerous to me) it made no sense at all to have that one there at all (it's only a few feet from the one i had to deal with last night and in the same air space). if there was a wall up between the two areas it would make sense so perhaps that was part of the original plan but i can't ask the guy who built this place or designed the wiring as he passed away 20 yrs ago.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That doesn't sound like fun at all! Could you move the higher one down a little lower to make it more accessible?

 

[flowerbug]

That doesn't sound like fun at all! Could you move the higher one down a little lower to make it more accessible?

cathedral type ceiling makes any lowering not workable for the detector, but i was thinking last night of switching over to a battery one and setting up a pully and string arrangement... currently it isn't too hard for me to get up there but at some future date if i stay here longer i'll want to do something different as i can't imagine ever wanting to call someone at 2am to come change a battery or whatever...

the other possibility would be to arrange a tube up high and have a small fan which moves the air from the up high end of the tube down to someplace where a smoke detector is set up... i'm not sure if this is workable or not, but i'd research it before i did it.