Fire Extinguishers

Everybody knows having fire extinguishers in the home is important. We all say we should have one. But how many of us actually do?

Over the Christmas Holidays a coworker had a kitchen fire.

Somehow a resin / plastic refrigerator magnet became attached to the bottom of a baking pan.

When they baked muffins, or corn fritters, I can’t remember which – the resin magnet caught fire.

Fortunately – they had a fire extinguisher in the kitchen.

Home saved. Nobody is homeless / living in a rental apartment. Keepsakes and photos are safe. Life not disrupted. No having to deal with insurance companies for 6 months.

And NOBODY DIED.

The next day I bought 2 fire extinguishers at Lowes Home Improvement.

The primary fire extinguisher is adjacent to the kitchen, garage and the stairs to the bonus room.

 

 

The second fire extinguisher is in the hallway laundry closet. Next to the bed rooms.

 

 

And as my coworker said to me – “That’s great you got fire extinguishers. I hope you never use them.”

Indeed.

Christmas 2009

Nuke's parents were out of town for Christmas so he came up to Sanford to go with me to NoVa to spend Christmas with the family.

We left around 1030 on Christmas Eve. Traffic wasn't too bad until we got near Fredricksburg. After that it was pretty heavy with some stop and go.

My nephews were in a Nativity thing at Vienna Presbyterian; so we drove directly there. Got there about a half hour before the start so we went across the street and got some Starbucks.

The service was pretty full. We sat in back so the families of the kids in the pageant could take the closer seats.

Plus, I didn't want anyone around me to get hurt when I got struck by lightening for being in church.

Afterwards we all went to a restaurant for dinner: Me, Nuke, brother-in-law, sister, niece and her hubby, and the 2 auxiliary nephews. Chinese Christmas Eve dinner should be a tradition. It was great.

Christmas morning ADD and RDD has everybody over for breakfast and to watch the kids tear into their loot.

None of my photos turned out all that great.

Afterwards Nuke and I went into Reston to see Sherlock Holmes. OK but not that great. Wait for Netflix - skip paying admission at the theater.

Christmas dinner was at ACH and GAH. As usual it was excellent and a lot of fun to have everybody together.

 

Drove back to NC on Saturday. I spent the evening watching Bowl games. The UNC - Pittsburgh game was about as close as you could get. Interesting note - NC State beat both UNC and Pittsburgh this season.