Why Am I Up This Early?

 Who knew life could be so exciting?  Yesterday (Monday) I was getting ready for work and Amy told me that the SmokeAlert people who were scheduled for November, where coming in 15 minutes.  Great ~ good to get that chore done early.

Nice guy, a fireman from Durham came and cleaned our dryer vent, replaced the transition duct because an 8 foot one was installed and it is not to code.  So he replaced it with a 4 foot one.  Then, he changed all the batteries in our smoke detectors.  Very nice.

Oh, I forgot ~ prior to him arriving at the house, I was out on the front porch because there was a pickup truck in front and two BIG dogs in the yard.  The biggest Rottie and the biggest Pit I have ever seen.  Both wet, no collars.  The guy in the truck turned out to be a neighbor who had seen the dogs and was trying to corral them while waiting for Animal Control.  Amy got the dogs in our back yard so they would be safe.  Our neighbor told me he had his gun in case the dogs got aggressive.  Not good.

Anyway, Animal Control came ~ he was the nicest guy.  Said he knew the dogs.  Both were chipped.  Both lived on a big piece of fenced property BUT their owners had 2 little kids who would let the dogs out.  Animal Control said they were taking the dogs to their home.  

Luckily that was the most excitement we had on Monday.

15 hours later, at 4:22am, the smoke detector in my room and the one in Amy's room started chirping.  I got the big ladder and two new batteries and replaced mine.  No luck.  Amy got up there and replace the batteries ~ no luck.  Lots of cursing.  

I called SmokeAlert and left a message saying we were not happy.

    

My complaint:  (1) why are the + and - signs so tiny in smoke detectors?  (2) why do we have smoke detectors in the same house that use 9 volt and AA batteries?  Why aren't they all the same?  

Anyway, I left to BUY new batteries.  I wondered what is open during COVID at 5:30 am where I can buy batteries?  My brain was clicking along so I went to our local Sheetz gas station.  Bought new 9 volt and AA batteries. Tried to buy lottery tickets but you can't get those until after 7am.  

Got home and looked at my phone ~ 3 messages from Amy starting at 8 minutes ago saying No chirping.  Well, we have new batteries.  And a quiet house.  For now.

And, to end on a happy note, here are the newest pictures of Thomas:

This quilt was made by our neighbor, Rhonda.  Love it!!!!!

Hope everyone has a beautiful day!

Love,

Leslie

Summer is Over......

Here it is, the middle of October and our new great nephew is a month old!!!!!! Already????? Am I going to wake up and find out he is driving????

Carolyn and baby out exercising

And, our youngest niece, Emma is safely in Seattle at the University of Washington (Tony's alma mater and Dad's favorite school after Navy).

Wow!  It certainly is a better view than I had at Georgia Southern!

Jane has been over here a couple of times:

                                                      Here she is with Nicole.

 I am enjoying the playoffs for baseball.  Amy will watch the games with me.  Well, she looks at the players.  Here are the two she is currently watching (read perving on).

Tyler Glasnow                                                           Max Fried

We are decorated for Fall ~ the real Halloween stuff will go up next weekend

And yes, the Halloween candy is out.  I love candy corn and I mixed it with some Fritos ~ what a game changer!  Not ashamed to share.

Catching some sun to see how much he glows in the dark.  

And, the tomatoes have been cleared out.  So sad.  

Much love,

Leslie