Smoke detectors are inexpensive. Like $10 or $15 per fer stand alone battery operated ones now days. Really no reason to not have them in place. I remember when they first came out for residential use (I was just a kid) they were a couple hundred bucks each, my parents had a sit down with the guy selling them and had to see if it was in the budget to buy one. Back then a couple hundred bucks was a lot of money.

The ones in my dwelling are hard wired but you can still unplug them if the go off. Like Stogie, if I sear some meat while cooking, burn something while cooking or as season a cast iron pan on the stove it sets off he smoke alarms and I have to get on a step ladder to take them down temporarily.

I like the hard wired ones, no annoying chirping when the battery goes low. It seems like the battery warning only happens in the dead of night. I'd try to ignore it and deal with it later the next day but my dog would bark at it too... so at 3:00 AM, I'd be ripping them down and pull out the battery in order to get back to sleep.

CO2 detectors, same deal

Friday, the most hopeful of the workdays.

Morning, peoples

TGIF greetings all. 🍺

Warm, wet day in LA today.

Snow.

Morning gents

Howdy folks.

Currently 42... headed to 74 today.

It's 72 today and headed for low 80s for the next few days.

Out for a 4-5 miler and then to the gym. A cigar is planned for later.

😎 Dudes..



snowing here..... 😟

X....🇨🇮

Snow due here tomorrow. 😣

Good Friday Morning! It's a rainy 57° on the way to just 58° today.

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I haven’t touched snow since 2006 when we were on a trip to Las Vegas to see our kids and to attend an Eric Clapton concert. I don’t miss being in the cold and getting my shoes wet but do miss watching EC live.

Had an A/C added to my previous house. They removed the low voltage system when they did it so the smoke detectors, doorbell, and something else quit working... I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on since the batteries in the detectors lasted about a year before the offending chirping would start. I disconnected them, used just battery and life was good again. The doorbell was a headscratcher though. When we went to sell the house, the door bell was checked and it didn't work...:-k Oh well, I'll convert it to battery as well.
Sold the house and figured out what caused it a few years later.#-o

I haven't touched snow in like 8hrs

Today was countertops day. Toughest choice of the remodel to date. Nothing hit the sweet spot. Leathery quartz was the final decision. Both content if not excited about where we ended up.

Tomorrow it is going to be colder than a twitches wit. Will report temp and wind chills. All edgedy OldMan Winter’s last big swing before Spring goes on the counter attack. Hope tomorrow is the last day of 2022 I feel compelled to use the term Wind Chill.

I bet Drafter has seen them.

Calling for rain and snow mix tomorrow (Fri). Start the morning around 40° with a little rain then temps drop to right around freezing mid day for some snow, maybe. Supposed to last all day on and off. Precipitation total predicted around 1-3" of what ever form it decides to take (rain and snow).

Sounds like my forecast.

Happy Saturday jackalopes. Already spring time in the desert and the air is filled with citrus blooms since much of the area was once citrus orchards now converted to homes. I need to make one more pass to finish picking my lemons for the year.