It has rained on and off all weekend long! Thanks Isaac we needed the rain for the drought but my back sure doesn’t like it!! I’ve spent most of the day Saturday, Sunday and Monday on heating pads trying to relieve the pain. I’ve barely slept as getting a comfy place to rest is almost impossible. The grandkids came over Saturday afternoon and since it wasn’t a good weekend to play outside and Grandma wasn’t feeling too go it worked out great that they brought their WII and we played their new Super Mario game .. Yes i love to play games with them. Grandma laid on the couch on her heating pad while we played games :)
Sunday night around 9 PM i went to get some ice out of the freezer and noticed it was melting. Hubby went out to check it out and the dreaded yellow stain and smell of ammonia has appeared and that means ….. Ughhh our refrigerator has decided to die! I took the items that had to be kept cold across the street to our friend Wanda (thanks girl .. don’t know what i’d do without you lately .. love you) then i took the rest of the ice and put it in the chest and put things that would keep in the cooler there.
Now we have some decisions to make as to what we are going to do. We got online and have looked at prices of new RV frigs .. Yikes! We did some searching and have found a couple electric frigs that will fit into our spot and hubby has looked into repairing ours. We barely use the propane part of our frig as I'm panic about the thought of it catching fire so i will not let hubby turn the LP part of frig on when were going down the road. So we basically use it on electric only. We are planning to add more house batteries and an inventor for when were traveling and dry camping over night we can use TV and few things without using the generator so we could just install an inventor and use that when were in travel mode. Regardless of what we do it will take 3-4 weeks before we can install or fix the one we have.
Plans are since we are staying in one spot for who knows when we are going to bring an older frig that is in our son’s shop and set it up outside our camper and use it until we can decide and get ours fixed. I guess it’s a good thing we are home bound after all. Although i have to admit i’m a grumpy camper when things don’t work right. The freezer part is keeping temp at around 36 degrees so until it goes out completely i can keep a few items in it and not have to cross the street to get them. I put a bit of milk into a small container so i have milk here but the entire gallon will not go bad if it decides not to work. The refrigerator part is keeping temps around 46 degrees so i am keeping tea and soda in there for now until i get a frig to use.
I hope you’ve had a better Labor Day weekend then I’ve had!
