The Strange Case of the Phantom Smoke Alarm

The Strange Case of the Phantom Smoke Alarm

 

The Hubster was out of town last weekend, and I was looking forward to some unstructured time to get some writing done.

Then, in the early morning hours, a smoke alarm started chirping. Insistently. Not the “there’s smoke” chirp, but the “I need a new battery” chirp. Strange, since we replace them regularly, but who am I to argue.

Since the alarm is mounted on a cathedral ceiling, and the only way to get a ladder tall enough into that area was to bri...