I guess there are many things mind boggling in the world - and I also guess, in fairness, it doesn't take much to boggle my mind, but I want to share a couple with you.
First we are suffering from sleep deprivation today as we had a busy night.
At three am we woke to an 'odd noide'. It was a regular sort of beeping/clicking noise. At first we lay there and debated it. Then Nigel got up and turned the fan off but the noise continued. He listed to where the TV was - nope. Then he realised it was coming from outside. And all the time the noise continued.
He figured it was the burglar alarm bod witht he siren so then we were worried it was a pre-cursor for the siren to go off. And all the time the noise continued.
He went down and opened the front door and realised it was much mich louder outside. Loud enough to be disturbing the neighbours. And all the time the noise continued.
So, clothes on, long ladder out and at 3.15 am Nigel was up the top of the ladder with me shining a torch for him and dismantling the burglar alarm box in the light drizzle. And all the time the noise continued.
He had the wrong sort of screwdriver so down he came and up he went. And all the time the noise continued.
He finally got the battery out and .....
And all the time the noise continued.
That was the mind boggling bit. We both just looked at it, wondering if perhaps this really was a dream. Nope
It must have been residual power as the noise did stop. By 4 am we were back in bed - wide awake and worried we were going to be shattered.
Why did it suddenly throw a wobbly? No idea. Mind boggling.
My second mind boggling blip comes in the form of timetables. I am not a logical mind really. I can do it when I have to but I like creativity best. It is timetable time. Worst time of the year. But there it is. Mind boggling.
Today I have a new page to share made in half term for the June Scrapology challenge.
You can find the challege here
The inspiration is this page from Gabrielle Pollacco
and the girls work is awesome as ever. Do check it out.
This month the challenge was trellis and I had fun making some digital trellis.
This is my page - the ever gorgeous Alice again
The products are all from Pickleberrypop
Today I am thankful for
- help with the timetable
- that horrible noise finally stopping
We had similar experience one night recently with the smoke alarm just outside our bedroom. DH finally wrenched it off the ceiling and threw it out of the bathroom window. He retrieved it in the morning but of course discivered that he had removed a chunk of plaster from the hall ceiling. The new alarm doesn't quite cover the damage but we were being driven crazy that night by the buzzing sound.
Posted by: Catriona | June 03, 2014 at 06:31 PM
The smoke alarms in our old house developed some kind of fault and it kept setting both of them off. For some reason, it was always in the middle of the night - never during the day... It was so difficult to shut them up - there wasn't a battery inside, as they were wired into the mains. Nightmare!
And of course it's a bit scary to have the smoke alarms going off in the middle of the night. You always have to check for a fire, so after that you don't sleep much.
So I sympathise with your zombified state!
I have great admiration for teachers' ability to get everyone squashed into the timetable - it must be a real struggle!
Posted by: Lizzie | June 03, 2014 at 07:45 PM
Well done, Karen! Lovely page-- and yes, Gabby Pollacco is such an inspiration.
Oh, how I feel for you and Nigel!
Steve and I experienced something near to that.
It happened when we lived in Fairbanks.
At about 2:30 a.m., a buzzer went off in our house. Of course, being awakened from a sound sleep, we were very confused and groggy, trying to figure out what was going on. Steve got up and searched. He found the C-O alarm was warning us of the odorless gas!
Naturally, it was 20 degrees below zero, so opening the windows was not an option. We called the fire department, and the men arrived promptly. They had a special detector with which they walked throughout the house. There was absolutely no indication that we had a build up of C-O in the house, even though the alarm announced differently!
When the firefighters left, we went back to bed, with an uneasiness, worried about why that alarm had sounded. We knew that the effects of C-O is confusion and grogginess :-\
In the morning light, Steve called the company that made the C-O detector. The representative informed us that the detector had a sensor which was cumulative. Therefore, when the sensor fills up with the C-O--whether it be 2 months or 2 years, the alarm will go off.
Fairbanks is located in a valley area, and because of the serious inversions we have there during the winter, it didn't take long for the sensor to reach capacity and go off.
It was good to know how the mechanism worked, but definitely not very suitable for life in central Alaska! :-)
Posted by: Barb in AK | June 04, 2014 at 07:38 AM