A fun evening
We get our four Llamas sheared every year. The people we have been using were due to come out later this afternoon. So we are waiting.
The phone rings, it is the security alarm monitoring company and they are saying that there is a fire alarm in one of the building's upstairs apartments. Great.
I am rushing out of the driveway and meet the Llama shearers driving in -- I yell to them what happened and we each went our various ways.
Turns out to have been a bad sensor -- the tenant was sitting at home watching television when all hell broke out in his apartment. The alarms are very loud and attention-getting. By the time I was able to make the five minute drive to the store, we had collected quite the audience of neighbors. The fire trucks pulled up (volunteer department -- awesome people and they are our neighbors) and we talked. They went upstairs to check the apartment and one fireman crawled up into the rafters with a thermal imaging camera to take a look up there. The County Sheriff deputy showed up (he lives a few miles away) so we chatted while the fire crew was clearing the building.
There is a red LED on each sensor that lights up when it is triggered. The light on that sensor was steady on so my guess is a defective unit. Nice to know that, like circuit breakers, they fail on the side of alarm rather than failing into dangerous and unprotected territories...
Came home and helped to shear the remaining critters. Sitting down to a late dinner -- I was planning to cook some spaghetti sauce but we settled for Tuna Sludge instead.
Can of Tuna, season with toasted sesame oil and cracked black pepper.
Cook one cup+ of Elbow Macaroni.
Combine. Yum. Cheap. Fast. Nutritious.
I like to add green peas but Jen doesn't like them so I put a handful of frozen peas into a small colander and dip it into the macaroni water as it is cooking.
Posted by DaveH at August 2, 2010 8:59 PM