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Another trip to a shore was in store for us last week. Everyone in that setting seems to head to bed as soon as the sun sets. I figure as soon as it’s quiet, I can pull out a book (peacefully going through quilting books is a great way to relax!). The first night, a screeching sound interrupted my book. As I jumped up, my sweetie sleepily asked whose phone it was… Certainly not a phone! I managed to find the smoke detector that was making the sound - maybe set off by a bug, as there definitely was no smoke or fire. As I was working out how to get to it - drag a chair, climb on a bed - my sister-in-law appeared. She sprang up onto the bed and wrestled it from the ceiling. Unbelievably, there was no way to pull the battery. Without skipping a beat, she said, “into the freezer it goes”. Yes, she most certainly is a genius! Two days later, I returned from the grocery store and tucked things into the freezer. Those things must have been just warm enough to thaw the smoke detector. You would have loved watching the two of us trying to defend our sanity, trying to explain what the, once again noisy, object was doing there!
Wishing you a week of creative solutions,
Mary Beth
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