do you have a carbon monoxide detector?

thankfully, we do.

and it saved my life yesterday.

while canning more spaghetti sauce, i got busy with my aunt on the phone...  chatting in detail and at great lengths.  i was stretched out on the couch, chatting away... while the canning pots on the gas range heated up.  or so i thought.

i heard an alarm.  thought it was our smoke detector.  didn't smell smoke, and continued chatting, thinking it was probably our battery dying out.  it continued to beep.

after a significant amount of time... i couldn't take the beeping and discovered it was our carbon monoxide detector, screaming relentlessly to me.  and warning me to get fresh air.

did that.

and probably explains the faint headache i acquired.

i sure would of been mad, if i died on my birthday. 

smile, wink, nod.