A continual beeping, New hires

The boys have been sleeping in their assigned bedroom at the new house for the past several nights and I think Seth is about to go crazy. There is no furniture in any of the rooms, no curtains on the windows, no movement or stirrings of others in the house; nothing to dampen any noise inside those empty walls. There is only a continuous beeping from a broken fire alarm. It sounds every thirty seconds with that shrill, piercing, uncomfortable chirp that can make your blood curdle.


The front bedroom, it will be reserved for the girls when they come, acts like an amplifier for the noxious noise. And even Mama who is there today to oversee the delivery of our new refrigerator has had enough. She has only been there for a couple hours. The boys have been spending the whole night. That is just under one thousand beeps. I wondered Sunday night why they were in no hurry to leave.

I have not been able to fix it because I cannot reach it. It is attached to the ceiling and I cannot reach it without a ladder, a chair or some other artificial elevation device. Even though we managed to remove the battery it continues to chirp because it is wired into the house electrical system. I know I can disconnect it but it will have to wait until our things get there on Thursday. Besides, I can’t hear it in my motel room.

Chase was excited the other day when the desk clerk at the neighboring hotel suggested he take an application. Chase and Seth have been going over regularly to use the weight room and the pool since the facilities at our hotel are being renovated. The same guy has helped them on multiple occasions and has come to have the card key ready for the two of them as soon as he sees them enter the lobby.

They were told that the owner would be in on Tuesday by 11am and Chase actually got up early to make the appointment. I told him Sunday night to dress the same as he had for church for the interview. He called me about an hour ago to tell me he had been offered a job working Friday and Saturday nights from 3pm to 11pm. He sounded pretty thrilled; even for Chase.

Seth is still looking for a job so he and Mama are going to the UPS warehouse today to pick up a package the delivery person would not leave at the house since it looked vacant, and while they are there he will fill out an application with them as he waits to hear back from Walmart. The good thing about Walmart is that it is only a block from the house. Sam’s, for the girl’s work, is less than two miles away by the longer route. And the airport is a whopping fifteen minutes away.

Life will be hard here, but we’ll manage