Smoke Detector Is Working
My poor unfortunate husband , who for 30 years was a volunteer firefighter, got woke up in the middle of his night to the sound of smoke alarms going off!! This was the culprit!
I was ironing my small quilt blocks and in the midst of it I smelled fabric burning.
As you can see it is scorched. My iron started smoking and I smelled burning rubber. I turned the iron off and pulled the plug. However that did not stop two smoke alarms from going off first. Hubby woke up and asked what I was doing? as I was turning on fans. In our younger days having the fire dept. come to my house would have been grounds for divorce. I quietly said I was sorry and skulked off to the basement to play with the computer and talk to you folks as a sounding board. Promised him I would stay out of trouble. I guess the rest of the blocks will be there when I get enough courage to go into the sewing room again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said "Move at the pace of nature and have patience." Guess I will have to, This is a wake up call to never leave iron unattended! martha
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I was ironing my small quilt blocks and in the midst of it I smelled fabric burning.
As you can see it is scorched. My iron started smoking and I smelled burning rubber. I turned the iron off and pulled the plug. However that did not stop two smoke alarms from going off first. Hubby woke up and asked what I was doing? as I was turning on fans. In our younger days having the fire dept. come to my house would have been grounds for divorce. I quietly said I was sorry and skulked off to the basement to play with the computer and talk to you folks as a sounding board. Promised him I would stay out of trouble. I guess the rest of the blocks will be there when I get enough courage to go into the sewing room again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said "Move at the pace of nature and have patience." Guess I will have to, This is a wake up call to never leave iron unattended! martha
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