they don’t make ’em like they used to

This morning, I opened the freezer in order to grab something for breakfast. I saw water dripping, and thought, “this can’t be good.” I looked around to find that most of the food was defrosted and the dripping water was coming from melting ice cubes in the ice cube dispenser. Argh.

So, Brian grabbed some coolers and I started loading them up. The refrigerator was still cold, so we didn’t lose anything from there. I pitched a bunch of defrosted food from the freezer because, better safe than sorry, though I was able to save a few things. I don’t keep a ton of stuff in our kitchen freezer, so that definitely helped the cause. Brian had to go to church because Jacob was at Sunday school, so I stayed home to finish transferring the goods to our downstairs freezer and refrigerator. Thank goodness we have an extra fridge and freezer otherwise I don’t know what we would’ve done with everything. I’ve been thinking about getting rid of our extra fridge (converting it to a beer keg, actually), but now I’m reconsidering that idea.

I suppose this completes the cycle. We remodeled our kitchen in 2000 and bought all new appliances. All the good that did us. Of the three major appliances in the kitchen, this was the last one to break (first went the dishwasher, next the stove, and now the fridge). The fridge I have downstairs was our old one and it has been running without a hitch since 1995.

Now we have to find someone to come look at the thing to see if it can be fixed. I doubt anyone is open today, so I guess our saga will continue until at least tomorrow.