Summerdale, AL - The Dry Ice Adventure Ends

Today, we got up, ate breakfast and began to fill coolers with food so that the refrigerator can be repaired. Oh, boy, oh, boy. Am I ever ready to have a refrigerator that works, that doesn’t need an eery other day fix of dry ice. We filled 3 coolers (mostly frozen food and condiments) and one small box which I wrapped in towels and stuffed under pillows to keep cold.

Pat got here about 9:30 to work on taking some panels off the outside. Paul got here at 10:00 to begin the real work of moving the refrigerator out of the place where it is and into our living room where they can put it down on its face and work on replacing the cooling unit from the back.

Gary took a picture of the cooling unit on Pat’s truck.

The process started poorly since the 3 guys couldn’t get the refrigerator budged from its spot. Finally, Gary called Winnebago and the guy told him about the whole line of silicone caulk along the bottom - behind the wooden piece - that can’t be seen. Thanks Winnegago. We might have contact paper on some of our woodwork but we’ve got gobs of silicon in places that can’t be seen.

Finally, with all 3 guys pushing and shoving, the refrigerator was out of the hole.

Now to move it to the middle of the living room - oops, gotta remove this little plate. Ah, now we’re cooking and here it is, in the middle of the living room.

Handy for snacking while you’re watching TV but not so handy if you’re trying to talk to someone on the other side of the room. Yep, down on its front.

Let’s put the new cooling unit on, and put that heating caulk on.

Time to put it back into its hole.

And, voila, we have a working refrigerator. Here it is with all the food we had in it.

I told you all that I had used up most of what we had. I need to go shopping tomorrow. Dinner tonight I can do but I have no milk or eggs or yogurt or bread or fruit for cereal or pancakes or scrambled eggs for breakfast.

Cleaning done (silly, Gary, he asked how he could help - I said vacuum. That will teach him.) What a stud muffin.

Now that the refrigerator is done, let’s clean the car. I washed and waxed the car but I was able to Tom Sawyer Gary into vacuuming the inside.