I know it is a bit unorthodox to lean into a deep freeze when the temps hover around 100 degrees outside, but yes, I confess, “I did it.”
Truth is our cavernous HUGE deep freezer suddenly began spewing water over everything in it. I haven’t defrosted it in a month or two, 3 or 4 months, maybe a year, so I blamed myself.
Well, I know I defrosted it since 1990.
We bought the freezer in 1990!
Imagine?
And it has been going non-stop ever since. No repairs, rare defrostings, overloading, underloading, whatever.
Anyway, I was overheated due to rising temps in this part of Virginia, so decided to hang over the edge of the old girl, chipping away at mountains of accumulated ice and picking at giant slabs with gloved hands and long prongs.
Cool!
And to add to the joy of being slightly chilled in a heat wave I had memories of balancing on the monkey bars when I was a kid. Leaning leaning leaning over the edge of our freezer was a similar feeling.
I felt young again! Carefree. And yes – Cool!
It took about four hours to defrost, de-ice, and displace all the foods that needed to be discarded or moved to our smaller refrigerator freezer.
And at the end of four hours I could barely move!
No longer cool.
In need of Ibuprofen.
Exhausted.
I turned the X&6%#@&* thing back on again, but Bill came along and turned it off. “The freezer’s shot,” said he. And this morning he went to Lowe’s and ordered a new one.
Me, I’m still wondering why I defrosted and cleaned a 26 year old faltering freezer.
It must have been to keep cool.
The Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort in Finland offers a variety of accommodations, including snow igloos. Guests who book a snow igloo during their stay get to sleep inside a shelter of ice. The temperature is kept at a consistent level regardless of the temperature outside and the guests are provided with down sleeping bags to keep them warm when they turn in for the night. If you’re noticing a trend, it is one of many ice hotels based in the Nordic countries, a sign of ingenuity from countries that celebrate the cold.
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