Yes, it was an easier day Wednesday, taking the 12 Harrisburg cats up to the FCCO.
I didn't house them in the garage the night before or after. That made a huge difference. And check out time was 3:00 instead of 4:00 which caused me to miss the traffic mayhem, mostly, on I5, going home.
So nice not to also be tasked with night before and night after care. That's a vet student for you, or actually, just a responsible person, who did most of the work herself.
I walked around in stores, pretending to shop, much of Wednesday, to keep my muscles and joints from freezing up in the cramped car.
Saturday evening I trap hopefully all seven cats haunting the state historical site old grainery mill, that could, with its screaming and creaking in the valley wind, be a great place to film a ghost movie.
They're beautiful cats, mostly tame or half tame. The three kittens will move on to a rescue in Portland after they are fixed next Monday.
I'd asked multiple rescues and people for help with the kittens, and finally got a yes from one. That was exciting.
Before I left for the FCCO I had to change out another car headlight. I didn't realize it was out til after dark the night before. I knew something was off but when my headlights landed on my garage door I could clearly see the real problem---I was minus one working headlight. So I went off to a parts store fast, before it got too dark, to get another headlight and came home and swapped out the bad for the good.
Tonight, sudden intermittent beeping. I thought it was from the hardwired smoke detector and changed its back up battery. Still beeping. I turned off all the power to the house at the main, then back on, to see if that might fix it. Nope. Then I turned off the power again, and low and behold---still the beeping and thought "what an idiot". I then came back inside and found the real culprit--the carbon monoxide detector which is right beside the smoke detector.
It has no changable battery, however. I put on my reading glasses and read the back of the still beeping little box and read it has a ten year expiration date at which point it will beep and you have to replace it. Today was the tenth anniversary of its creation and like clockwork, it quit and began to beep, to tell me "now you have to buy a new one because this one is ten years old". But how to stop the beeping. The instructions said, in the teeniest print you could possibly use, to insert a screw driver in a slot and slide the switch up towards the top. The switch was frozen, wouldn't budge.
Sick of the beeping by now, I took it out in the driveway and smashed it with a hammer.
That did the trick. No more beeping!
Off to bed early tonight with another book by another author I've not tried before. I dumped the 2 Auntie Poldi books into a donation box. I couldn't get through even two chapters of one of them. Finding books I enjoy isn't usually too hard. I found some more free books, and chose one from each of five different authors and will try them one by one. I don't force myself to read books I don't enjoy.
I am so glad you had an easier day - and wish you had more of them. Mashing that gadget with a hammer must have been satisfying. Those beeps are sooooo annoying.
ReplyDeleteExtremely satisfying!!!!!
DeleteIf it is light enough, can you take photos of the spooky mill? Not if you are too busy.
ReplyDeleteThe average less than new house here would not have a hard wired smoke detector, only a battery model.
Lol at you smashing up the carbon monoxide detector. Why would you have that detector? A space heater of some kind?
I have no idea why this house has one hard wired smoke detector. It was here when my brother bought it, although it didn't work, so he got a new one to put in, rather than cap off the wires and repair a hole in the wall. I put up battery powered ones in the two bedrooms and the cat room in the garage. The CO monitor is now required of houses with attached garages, like maybe I'd leave the car running for extended time in the garage, with the garage door closeD? Or something? Lots of these requirements seem really nutty to me.
DeleteHere's my post when I visited the mill in 2014.
Deletehttps://catwomanflix.blogspot.com/2014/05/fun-with-past.html
There are too many books out there to waste time on ones you don't enjoy. I agree with your philosophy.
ReplyDeleteNo kidding! And life is short.
DeleteGlad to hear that you solved the beeping problem.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite knowledgeable on getting cramps from sitting in rig.
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Too long sitting cramped up makes me psychologically nuts also besides cramping up my legs and freezing my joints in place.
DeleteI'm always thrilled when you get cooperation, let alone assistance. :D The image of you hammering on that unit made me giggle; we are so much alike. But don't feel silly for not recognizing the source of that beep because my husband and I share this problem. lol Everything beeps nowadays and intermittent sounds are difficult to track.
ReplyDeleteThanks for recognizing the beeps put out all over the place by various appliances, electronics, just about everything making it a little tough to tell what is failing now, especially when they're way above your head and maybe side by side! Oh how I loved hammering that thing to smithereens!
DeleteI can't stand beeping, either. Using a hammer would have been so satisfying. I'll DNR books that I don't enjoy. Well, actually, I'll skim to the end just to see if it'll get better. It usually doesn't.
ReplyDeleteI find that using a hammer on anything but a nail turns out to be incredibly satisfying, in general and in my experience.
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