Friday, March 07, 2008

Walking the Perimeter (02/26/08)


Sunday, the 24th, our fence alarm went off. For those of you who don’t know, our property is surrounded by a large brick fence with broken shards of glass and an electric fence on top. If something touches the electric fence, we have an alarm that goes off. It’s quite loud. This past Sunday, the 24th, I was in the dining area of the house when Kerri noticed that the monitor for the electric fence was not working properly. She decided to turn it off and turn it back on. When she turned it back on, the alarm went off. She quickly ran into the den to tell me she accidentally set it off, but it still scared the mess out of me, because I didn’t know she was doing anything with the system. The alarm going off meant that something must be touching the electric fence somewhere. This meant, yes more joy, I had to walk the perimeter of the property at night with a flashlight looking for anything that might be setting the alarm off. After removing some debris that was touching the fence, we tried turning the system on again, but the alarm still went off. We decided to leave the system off until the morning in order to find what was causing the problem. In the morning, we still couldn’t find the problem. So, we called the company who installed the fence to come look at it. They eventually came and fixed the issue. So, we’re now protected by Viper. Oops! I mean MEPS.

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