Luckily we have a deep freezer downstairs so I quickly bagged up the food and carried it all downstairs. I then emptied the ice holder thing and turned the freezer dial to the lowest position. Then I placed a dixie cup of water in the freezer and waited. Later that day the water in the cup was frozen and the ice maker was making new ice. John thought maybe the freezer door had been left slightly open and caused things to start thawing.
I let a couple days go by with it working fine before I moved some of the food back into it. Then a couple days later I came home and found a puddle of water on the floor next to the fridge! I open the freezer door and found that the ice cubes were melting again and that the food was starting to thaw again!
I unload the freezer again and a couple hours later I hear new ice cubes dropping into the holder! I'm like what the H-E-Double toothpicks!?! (Not what I really said).
John now thinks the compressor or something like that is getting hot and shutting off and then once it cools it starts working again...whatever. All I know is that I'm getting tired of cleaning up water off the floor, throwing food away and hauling food up and down the stairs.
We thought about calling someone out to repair it, but we realized that we have had this fridge for 17 years and decided that we should just bit the bullet and get a new one. :)
This makes me happy for a couple of reasons. One, our kitchen is tiny and the fridge sticks out from the cabinets too far and this will be our chance to get a counter-depth refrigerator and two, we can get stainless to match our stove and microwave oven...Yippee!
So Saturday, after a long day of going to Estate Sales, John and I head out to look for a new fridge. Our first stop was HH Greg because if you have forgotten, I won a $300 gift card from them last summer and I've been saving it for just such an occasion.
We enter the store and something that doesn't happen often...happened. Not only did we find a fridge that we both liked but we found 2 that we both liked. We were ready to buy it right then and there, BUT we had forgot the gift card at home! We didn't know it then, but this was the first in a long line of problems to come....
Saturday was the last day of the sale on the fridges so we needed to go home, get the card and drive back that day...not something that makes John very happy. But we headed home, got the card and before we headed back, we took a quick measurement of the opening in the cabinets for our fridge...dun dun dun...both the refrigerators that we liked would not fit in that spot...they were too tall! The one time that we both agree so quickly on something and then this happens.
So we head back to HH Gregg and tell the guy who was helping us that it was a good thing we did have to go home because we found that what we were about to order wouldn't have fit. So we tell him that we need a fridge that will fit in a space that is 36" wide and 68 1/2" tall. Well guess what, all the counter-depth side by side with ice/water in the door are all taller that 68 1/2 inches. We left HH Gregg and went to 3 other stores only to find out the same thing.
Sooooo, today, Sunday, John and I spent the day carefully ripping out the cabinet and crown molding above our old fridge, buying a shorter cabinet and installing it and replacing the molding all to gain 3 additional inches of space so we can get a freaking refrigerator that works! But we did it, we are done and tomorrow I can go buy it and get it scheduled for delivery this week.
After all the trauma I walk outside and see something red in the back corner of our yard. I walk back there and see this...
I planted these 2 or 3 summers ago and they never grew, but today of all days they were growing and glowing a beautiful red from the sun. I had to walk out to them and admire them....and thank them for brightening my day with their beauty.
So this will end up being a busy week for us because E-Six is expanding!! We decided to take the new, bigger space that had been offered to us, which means moving everything this week, so that it is all set up and going for Labor Day weekend. With speaking to Peter's wife, Dawn, she told me that she thinks I should keep my red doors and the look of my booth because they all like my booth. I told her that her husband was pretty adamant that there were no walls dividing my space from the woman's booth next to me. Dawn was like...."What?? Peter doesn't know what he's talking about". "He doesn't know anything about style". She told him this was my booth and I could make it however I wanted to....and Peter....well he was defeated just like that. I'm going to try to make Peter happy, but keep my booths look and style too.
Wish me luck, it's going to be a long week, but I have a couple days of relaxing on the beach with my toes in the sand and a frozen drink in my hand to look forward to....can't wait!
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