Duking it out with some Kidde hard wired smoke detectors.

Hard some plumbing done which required a fair bit of soldering in a confined hallway equidistant from both of our hard wired smoke, and carbon monoxide detectors setting them off. So the plumber dutifully pulled them from the ceilings. I then fought with these two plastic bastards for a full 90 minutes while they chirped, beeped, spoke in french to me, and pulled themselves out of their brackets, and unhooked themselves from their wire nuts on more than one occasion. I shredded one thumb, and one pointer finger wrestling with those assholes. After a good fight, and very sore shoulders, and some loud expletives I think I have them installed correctly, with green LEDs showing, battery no longer asking for activation, and no other (for the moment) issues.

Not only that but the tub is now usable once again in the main floor bathroom, and the wall behind the shower is patched. I have it filled in. Needs to dry, and get repatched. Then sanded, and painted over. Good as new. We just so happen to hang a sizeable photo collage there, so nobody should be much wiser to the edit! Ha. Perfect.

I for one celebrated with a shower, and pray to the skies above that I will get a restful night’s sleep. Sad we didn’t get to do any maple syruping this March break, but the weather chose to be uncooperative for such an endeavour. We needed warm sunny days, followed by cold nights. What we got was heavy snow, and bitterly cold, blustery days instead. So — no dice. The kids did go out on the snowmobile with their grandpa a couple times, and did a fair few hours of tobogganing with all the fresh snow. They had fun. I worked a bunch, so it was all good in the end. I even took a turn in the hot tub watching all the kids at once. That was a very loud test of my patience. I prefer to relax in the tub, not get splashed and shrieked at for an hour. The things we do to occupy our littles.

My second Dungeon Crawler Carl book has arrived, so I intend to dig into that tonight, if I can lift my arms to turn the pages at all. Happy March break everybody!