The Coffee House

[snowbear]

Saw those on another site; on the list.

 

[jeffashman]

Yeah, yeah; blame the bear.

Heading to Southern Maine next week. Son # 1 and DIL flying in, and of course lazy lobster is already there. We may swing through Finger Lakes area on way home. Whether we do, or not, I'll be kicking, screaming, and fighting the whole way back.

I'm tossing a coin to determine visiting the International Cryptozoology Museum, in Portland. Sounds interesting, but I keep thinkiung it's be an empty building.

Cryptozoology? As a cryptolinguist, that piques my curiosity...

 

[jeffashman]

If you can go a bit further north, about 75 minutes from Portland is the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. It was beautiful and worth the drive north. And they have these giant trolls hidden throughout. So amazing!

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Thomas Dambo trolls! Nice! I've seen the ones near Dayton, Ohio.

 

[Digger...]

Oven cleaning, great bloody fun. Hmm the fumes are horrible!

 

[Digger...]

Well on my way to a better camera... only got dribs & dabbles left so it's gonna take a while but its a start. Might live on noodles for 6 months and get it faster.

 

[Digger...]

I have a wall basket that i fill with coconut fiber for Mrs Magpies bedding material, most of the time after she eats she flaps up onto the bench scrapes her beak clean then flaps up to the basket just to tease some fiber out.

Shes still in my bad books for the 2nd nest though.

Thumper,

Binky, starting to get the hang of manual mode. 2500 is a good shutter speed...

Charlie didn't find a girlfriend for this season.

 

[nerwin]

So its a never a dull moment in my house. I swear the universe doesn't want me to sleep at night.

I have hard wired smoke/carbon detectors - its building code to have them or whatever

Well it went off for no reason at 12am and then again at 2:20am. Its been going off randomly which tells me they need to be replaced as they do have an effective lifespan but I don't think they are supposed to just go off like that scaring the crap out of you while you sleep unless there is an actual smoke or carbon monoxide present. Normally it talks, says which what has been detector and which detector detected it as they are are connected and the LED on them go from green to red. But this time, doesn't talk at all and the light stays green. From the manual its suppose to make a random chirp noise indicating it reached end of life, apparently it doesn't work lol.

A trip to the hardware store here we come...

So needless to say, I am

 

[smoke665]

@nerwin Been there, done that. Our alarm system is hardwired, but the smoke detectors have individual battery backups, which generally start chirping around 2am. If you bypass them the control panel starts chirping. I generally keep extra batteries, but there's been a couple time when I had to make emergency runs to Walmart in the wee hours of the morning. Walmart at 3 am is a whole new strange world.

 

[nerwin]

@nerwin Been there, done that. Our alarm system is hardwired, but the smoke detectors have individual battery backups, which generally start chirping around 2am. If you bypass them the control panel starts chirping. I generally keep extra batteries, but there's been a couple time when I had to make emergency runs to Walmart in the wee hours of the morning. Walmart at 3 am is a whole new strange world.

At least you know it wakes you up haha. Good info to know if there was a real emergency! Ours has battery backup too I think but they are non-replaceable. I didn't know some Walmarts are open at 3am, they close at a 10pm here.

 

[smoke665]

At least you know it wakes you up haha. Good info to know if there was a real emergency! Ours has battery backup too I think but they are non-replaceable. I didn't know some Walmarts are open at 3am, they close at a 10pm here.

They were open 24/7 here until the pandemic, most close at 11m now. All of ours use CR2s as backup, I'm doing a better job of keeping them on hand.

 

[jeffashman]

I have a wall basket that i fill with coconut fiber for Mrs Magpies bedding material, most of the time after she eats she flaps up onto the bench scrapes her beak clean then flaps up to the basket just to tease some fiber out.

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Thumper,
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Binky, starting to get the hang of manual mode. 2500 is a good shutter speed...
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Charlie didn't find a girlfriend for this season.
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Lovely set of images! Have you offered Mrs. Magpie a rebate on her rent to try and woo her back to your yard?

 

[jeffashman]

it went off for no reason at 12am and then again at 2:20am

Oh, there's a reason for it... they are programmed to run out of battery at the most inopportune time, around 2AM to 3AM, but they are smart sensors, so if they detect that you work nights, they go off whenever you are sleeping.

 

[snowbear]

Nerwin: It sounds like the batteries in one or all are bad. Since they are hardwired, if one goes off (battery or smoke) they all do. We (our FD) says ten years expiration; I'm not sure if that includes shelf life. Maybe check with your local Fire Dept

 

[smoke665]

@snowbear Ours are all hardwired to the panel and monitored by ADT. The control panel has a large backup battery, and each of the smoke/motion/glass break/heat have individual CR2 battery backups. When any battery goes bad the control panel beeps and shows low battery on Sensor XXX. Interesting side note, if there is a lightning strike close by, it will trigger the heat sensor in the attic setting off the alarm. That'll bring you wide awake in a hurry!!!!!

 

[jeffashman]

@snowbear Ours are all hardwired to the panel and monitored by ADT. The control panel has a large backup battery, and each of the smoke/motion/glass break/heat have individual CR2 battery backups. When any battery goes bad the control panel beeps and shows low battery on Sensor XXX. Interesting side note, if there is a lightning strike close by, it will trigger the heat sensor in the attic setting off the alarm. That'll bring you wide awake in a hurry!!!!!

We've had that happen a couple of times. It was like the lightning went through the house, then the sensor made a click sound, and then it went off. One of my sons practically killed himself trying to get out of his room.