Peaches and the Fire Department

Last weekend Chris and I canned peaches! This year was so much better than last. The peaches were cheaper, we had less mess, we got more quarts and they just look so much better. We were very proud. However, this lovely canning event has a story to go with it. It was about 11 at night, we just put the last batch of peaches in the canner and were cleaning up when my carbon monoxide detector goes off! I didn't know what to do, it's never gone off before so after a couple of minutes discussing with Steve about what we should do ( the detector says to call 911 but we still had to discuss what to do) I call 911. We're told to go outside and wait for the fire department. So I wake up my babe and we wait. Sure enough their was CO throughout the whole house. The fire department was here for about 1/2 hour until the levels went back down. They think it was because we had all 4 burners on the gas stove going for 5 hours on high with no windows open because I had the AC on which help to circulate the CO throughout the house. I finally got Makenna back to sleep around 1 but didn't really sleep that well because I was still worried and we had to have all the windows open so it was noisy. Anyways the moral of this story is 1- Make sure you have carbon monoxide detectors and 2- Keep the windows open while canning!