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Benzinha andn John Macnab...I'll have to pass those on to my wife...

She'll laugh!

oopsmheree's another cat...

posted by majroj on January 23, 2008 at 6:09 AM | link to this | reply

a good mechanic might mitigate the need for that trunk detector!!! maj

posted by benzinha on January 22, 2008 at 11:42 AM | link to this | reply

majroj
You have a chance of fire in your trunk?   Thanks for the info, majroj, very interesting.  

posted by johnmacnab on January 19, 2008 at 6:12 PM | link to this | reply

Stove fires...gotta love 'em..NOT
I ran across a bargain, a chain store was closing out a line of battery-operated detectors and was selling them for FOUR DOLLARS EACH. I bought them all and they were given to homeless folks...except the one in my trunk....

posted by majroj on January 17, 2008 at 7:17 PM | link to this | reply

maj, just ran a test while blogging.

My smoke detector sits on the sideboard, open and battery-less. Will buy battery this week, but it failed the pushing button test this week.

Then, I put on some potatoes to boil as I am out of dog biscuits and the doggies want something substantial to eat in winter, warm boiled potatoes, I thought.

So, I am blogging away and commenting and reading and the potato water is boiling away in another room, with heavy curtains between us now, as I have curtained every doorway and window this week. That last gas bill, see other blogs.

I smell another potato smell and run to the kitchen. Water all gone, potatoes not yet burning, just in time. No dog, even those waiting at the stove, came to tell me of the waterless state.

I put the potatoes in cold water and ate mine hot with salt and butter. Now the others are cooled off and I am about to feed the doggies.

So, smoke alarms are good and would have informed me, as that isolated one was in the kitchen....when it had a battery, but made me realize that I need more detectors now that I have divided up the house. And SOME dogs do nothing, but might have if I had left the potatoes  to burn, but now, I will never know....

posted by benzinha on January 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM | link to this | reply

Good idea on visual alarms

posted by Azur on January 13, 2008 at 12:46 PM | link to this | reply

Excellent information. Thank you.  sam

posted by sam444 on January 13, 2008 at 10:09 AM | link to this | reply

posted by afzal50 on January 13, 2008 at 9:32 AM | link to this | reply

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/culture/living.html
Apparently someone has those ideas already. Of course! Now, are they widely available, cheap and dependable? And simple.

posted by majroj on January 13, 2008 at 7:44 AM | link to this | reply