Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Freezer full of funk

Two of the biggest problems with going on an extended vacation are forgetting things and the unexpected things that go wrong while you're gone. We were pretty good about remembering our stuff this time, so, of course, something had to go wrong.

We got home late Monday evening to things pretty much as we left them. Our neighbor had been watching our house for us, so there was a pile of mail and our fish were still alive. Well, two out of three fish. One died and we don't know what happened to it. We think our algae eater ate it. Our neighbor didn't throw it away and that damn little algae eater is looking more and more like some Lovecraftian creature.

Outside, on our back porch was this odor we couldn't quite place. Not until we looked down at the freezer and noticed the power light wasn't on. Opening the freezer placed the odor. Everything inside had thawed and the juices were making some kind of unnatural muck at the bottom.

Our power went out two or three times while we were gone and during one of those power outages, the breaker for the freezer tripped. Simple fix. But, oh what a funk.

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