The Old Folks Home

[getaclue]

After I went to bed last night, I awoke to a beeping sound a little after 4 am. I listened, and nothing, so I rolled over, and went back to sleep. About 10 minutes later, there was another beep. It took me awhile to track it down, but the noise was coming from one of the smoke alarms. It needed a new battery. I have very tall ceilings, and the smoke alarms are way on up there. I debated whether I could sleep through the beeps until I woke up today. Nope, not happening. I had to go to the garage, and drag in a ladder to get the stupid thing off the wall. I had nothing better to do at that time of morning, right?

 

[Peep_Show]

Our dogs absolutely freak with the intermittent battery alert on the smoke alarms. There's no peace until the batteries are changed out. And, yes, of course it's always the middle of the night. We, too, have high ceilings. Sigh....

 

[pennyJo1960]

Something like low battery in them I am awake till it is replaced oddly we have a carbon alarm up shoulder height

 

[ronott1]

After I went to bed last night, I awoke to a beeping sound a little after 4 am. I listened, and nothing, so I rolled over, and went back to sleep. About 10 minutes later, there was another beep. It took me awhile to track it down, but the noise was coming from one of the smoke alarms. It needed a new battery. I have very tall ceilings, and the smoke alarms are way on up there. I debated whether I could sleep through the beeps until I woke up today. Nope, not happening. I had to go to the garage, and drag in a ladder to get the stupid thing off the wall. I had nothing better to do at that time of morning, right?

We had on that was sheet rocked into a wall during a remodel. When it was colder than normal, the thing would chirp! It kept it up for a couple of years and was quite irritating

 

[CapricornFarm]

After I went to bed last night, I awoke to a beeping sound a little after 4 am. I listened, and nothing, so I rolled over, and went back to sleep. About 10 minutes later, there was another beep. It took me awhile to track it down, but the noise was coming from one of the smoke alarms. It needed a new battery. I have very tall ceilings, and the smoke alarms are way on up there. I debated whether I could sleep through the beeps until I woke up today. Nope, not happening. I had to go to the garage, and drag in a ladder to get the stupid thing off the wall. I had nothing better to do at that time of morning, right?

Why do they always beep in the middle of the night? Makes me want to rip them out!

 

[bruceha2000]

Get the 10 year ones that you don't have to replace the batteries. When they batteries go, replace the detector. I replaced 2 hardwired ones that were above "standing on a chair" reach with them. The hardwired ones test the batteries that are there in case power goes out. Testing them takes a wee bit of their stored power. So yep, still have to replace the batteries every 6 months. What a waste. And of course they cry for their new batteries only in the middle of the night.

 

[getaclue]

We do replace the batteries yearly, but that doesn't mean they always last a full year. They NEVER go out at a reasonable time.

 

[perchie.girl]

had a doc appointment yesterday... lots talked about... but after I read the instructions this morning.... she took me off All Diabetes meds....

With the instruction that if my Blood sugar went above x amount I was to go back on Metformin at a half dose.....

GOAL MET ..... Which is one of my goals for doing the Surgery.....

Woo Hoo.

deb

 

[microchick]

Just had the funniest thing happen, well, funny from my POV.

Went out to water the broody hens and their babies and noticed that a chick was missing. Mom was scratching around the pen. Though Crap! Dead baby. Squeezed my way into the pen and proceeded to sift through the bedding. No baby. Looked around. No baby. Looked in the pen next door and suddenly remembered that both of those hens only had a chick each Bingo! There was my missing chick, happily running around with it's new sibling and adopted mom, happy as clam in the sand where nobody can find it.

Took the deserted hen out of her pen and turned her loose outside to resume being a hen.

Sometimes chickens just remind you who is really in charge.

 

[ronott1]

Why do they always beep in the middle of the night? Makes me want to rip them out!

Batteries get weaker when it is colder. The colder the less power there is. They will go off during the coldest time which is usually three in the morning!