New Chill Chest

Whew! What a weekend. Believe me when I say heading back to work today sounds easy by comparison. But before we get to the weekend, I will tell you about my Thursday night. When we last left our hero (me) she was busy wrangling two kids while her beloved (Javier Matt) was out of town. On the way to pick up the kids to take them to Grammy and Papa’s house on Thursday night, she stopped at home briefly to let the fierce defender of her home (Loki) out for a tinkle break.

So I walk into the kitchen from the garage and immediately spot a ginormous puddle behind our fridge. Joy. With some technical support by phone, I turned off the water that feeds our ice maker and cleaned up the mess. I noticed, however, that our lovely wood floors (a mere year old!) were warped. Yay. This is not the first time this has happened. See the line into the fridge will sometimes freeze up, then the water has nowhere to go and it backs up and floods. Apparently a new hose, etc. is not an option because the failure is where it couples to the fridge. Had Matt been home, we probably wouldn’t have had such a big mess because it would have been caught sooner, but murphy’s law and all that.

As much as I hate to get rid of a perfectly good (otherwise) appliance, we do not want the sucker flooding the house while we’re on vacation, etc. (and of course we could turn it off, but it’s another thing to remember before you leave town and let’s face it – a challenge sometimes!). So we could keep the old fridge and have no ice-making or get a new one. We are big-time water drinkers and really use our automatic ice, so we opted for a new one. And technically it’s not gone … it will replaced the model from the 70s that graces our garage and that old energy sucker is out the door.

So the new one (similar to photo) will be delivered today. I am very excited for it, not least of which because we got a great deal on it at the scratch-and-dent store. It’s actually new in the box but was 50% off retail, or about $1000 less than we could have gotten it for at Lowes or Home Depot. Man you know you’re getting old when you’re excited about your new REFRIGERATOR.