Our frig went on the fritz today and I ran out for ice and ran into several police cars on our 1/8 mile street. They told me to hurry before they closed our street for an indeterminate amount of time.
So I ran to the local drugstore and got 20# of ice and when I got back the repairman had all our frozen stuff out on the counter, which we packed up quickly and put in two coolers.
Didn’t do the frig and I think everything’s bad as the milk was bad…. Then we found out Jim’s cousin Val (Zoe’s hip surgeon) wanted to have dinner tonight as she’s in town with her parents.
Then we found out the reason for all the police and mounted police et al is that the President is in town and they closed all the streets around here so if I wanted to feed Jim and Val and her parents all the food went bad AND our street was blocked so we couldn’t enter or exit the property!
Val’s appointments ran 1 1/2 hours late so we’ll meet for breakfast instead. I just ordered a pizza.
What a day.
Cooking with Dee 
I just thought of a new IN quiz: If one of your major appliances HAD to break down, which one would you prefer?!? Surely it would give great insights into your personality…
The fridge is a pain, but I think the washing machine is worse – our “nearly-new” top of the line Kenmore has some sort of electronic glitch (the repairman’s already been out twice so I think this model’s just a lemon); it works its way painfully slow through its cycles w/frequent stops & restarts… Still beats having to go out to the pond w/a washboard!
So I am babysitting the washing machine today [heavy sigh] – hopefully Sears repairman can come out Thurs…
For me it’s definitely the frig. Living in a city I can always find a way to wash and dry clothes or wait for a day or two. But we put all the freezer stuff in our coolers and the frig stuff went bad. Our refrigerator is on the “do not buy” list, not known to us until now.