All those little things you put off which you are supposed to do routinely, like changing furnace filters, going to the dentist or changing the batteries in your smoke detectors, sooner or later come back around to annoy you! That happened today about 8:30 in the morning when my smoke detectors began "chirping" about every 5 minutes. I can't remember when I last changed the batteries, only that it has certainly been longer than two years! Since they require 4 volt batteries I was off to Walmart before coffee. Since I was already there I bought a few groceries. Walking around Walmart I think you could get in a few hundred steps! I decided I didn't need the electric scooter so I was leaning on a shopping cart. I was tired and a bit sore by the time I got home. When I tried to change the batteries I discovered I just wasn't tall enough-I got one off but couldn't get it back on. An SOS was sent out to my daughter for a TALL person (this is a family joke, whenever something is beyond the reach of my 5'3" I say, " I need a Tall person") So, she added the task of saving me from the chirping of my smoke detectors to her son. He was coming to cut my grass anyway. He put the one back up but that didn't stop the chirping --my house has 5 smoke detectors--so we went looking for the chirping one. In the end he changed out 2 more! I not live in glorious quiet!
While all the chirping was going on I went down to the studio for a couple of hours. Hauled out 3 bags of trash! Put more things away, began to see the tops of more tables, so good progress.
I wonder how many more small chores I've neglected in the past two years are going to enliven my life.
No comments:
Post a Comment