Forever Home – July 04th

Happy 249th Birthday, America! (Girl, you’re in danger!)

Despite my comments yesterday about not having nearly as much to cull and toss as we did seven years ago when we moved here from a house that was twice the size, when it is time to cull, there’s no mercy shown.

We’ve had this fridge for something like 20+ years, but in the last eight to ten weeks or so it’s gotten flakey and unreliable. It’s the one that’s out on the back porch and the right side is kept full of beer, wine, water, sodas, Gatordade, and the “spare” milk and OJ when we buy in bulk. The freezer side on the left is where the leftovers go when The Long Suffering Wife cooks up a big pot of chili, stew, jambalaya, or whatever, and where the bulk beef & chicken & ice cream go when we hit Costco. We were lucky that I caught the first big defrosting failure event early and we didn’t lose anything, but it’s been an adventure trying to fit everything from here into the “regular” refrigerator inside, which is usually pretty full to begin with.

What was really weird was how it would re-freeze and work fine for another day or two, then fail again for a couple of days. We’ve gone through two or three cycles a week, which gave me some hope that it could be repaired. But after getting a quote on the cost of repairs, seeing how much a new one would cost, and then having it seem to die completely for the last seven or eight days, the moving calendar was the final straw. We’re going to be busy enough for the rest of this month, I don’t have time to spend getting some sort of service tech in. Out this one goes, we’ll buy a new “spare” fridge next month when we get to Hesperia.

We definitely got our money’s worth out of it. The LA City Waste Management folks do large item pickup and wanted to schedule us for the middle of August – um, we’ll be long gone by then, so pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease can it be sooner? Okay, since I cried and begged…

Being the 4th of July, the street is packed up and down the hill with folks coming to BBQs and parties (not at our place, not this year, enough chaos, thanks!) and I didn’t want it to be blocking the sidewalk, so on the grass it is. But I didn’t want it to tip over on anyone either, so we’re going with the rather ignominious attitude on its side. Whatever works!

I hope everyone enjoyed your Fourth! Stay safe!