Public safety officials always tell people to check their smoke alarm batteries at the same time they change their clocks for Daylight Saving Time. This is a practice that hopefully gets people used to routinely checking their smoke alarms.

I’ve long been in the habit of checking our smoke alarms at the time change but this morning offered a bit of a surprise. Around 6 AM, our “extra” hour of sleep was just beginning when we hear a chriping sound. It seems the battery in one of our smoke detectors picked this morning to quit: the very day it would’ve been tested, anyway.

In less than 10 minutes I had a new battery installed and was snoozing again. Being a bit superstitious, though, I made sure rest of our smoke detectors worked today, too!