#random beeps

So how do I deal with this?  I have to get dressed to find the beep because it could be anywhere, even the basement, or possibly outside, but if I let go of Peach, she will shoot back under the bed.  I stuck her in the bathroom and got dressed as fast as I could, and we all barrelled downstairs.

I put the dogs in the designated dog area, and started to look for the beep, but Peach is going absolutely insane and it’s hard to actually hear what’s beep and what’s Peach.

I’m trying to work room by room.  Peach has decided she is going to escape at any cost.  She tried every window and door.  I was now pulling her off things and trying to find the beep.  I reset the Verizon box just because.  It wasn’t the Verizon box.

Now Peach is bashing down the dog gates to hide in the living room.  After several times I just let her stay in there.

I cannot find the beep, but I know it’s in the dining room and it’s not the Verizon box.  I’m fairly sure I am going to die at this point.  Kiwi and Olive are just like, “Can we go back to bed now?”

Then I see them.  The smoke detectors hiding on top of the hutch thing.  There are two.  I am holding one in each hand waiting for the beep to come again when Mom comes out of her room (which is just off the dining room so she has heard EVERYTHING prolly.)   I figure out which thing it is and we go for the battery...only we can’t get it open.  I was in favor of smashing the whole thing with a hammer, but she jimmied it open with a butter knife.  We threw the thing on the kitchen counter and left it there.

So I bring Peach back in the designated dog area, but she’s still flipping out.  I’m not going to take her outside like that (she has a tendancy to start nasty fights outside if she’s upset) but Olive had to go, so Mom held Peach in her room for a minute while the other two went.  Then Mom went back to bed.  Lucky.

It’s after 5:30 now and I’m pumping with adrenaline, so I figured might as well get a head start on the day.  I start to make my morning vitamin drink thing...but Peach is still flipping out and trying to escape and stuff.  Now I am like putting one thing in the cup, then dragging Peach back in the kitchen, then the next thing, etc.  Finally I convince Peach to stop knocking over the gate.

And now we’ve finally moved into the office area and she’s settled down and just barely stopped panting.  Dawn will be soon.  I will let them all out then and give breakfast.