***Ladies Section*** The freezer's failing.....

It's always something. The upright freezer is failing. Sister 5th Gear opened it tonight and found the bread thawed as well as some stock and berries, all towards the front of that shelf. Berries on the door thawed. Meats are still hard, thank goodness. This freezer is about 17 years old so I guess it's time. Besides, we've discovered it had started leaking (supposed to be frost free) in the back so we're gonna have to do some floor repair when it gets removed.

The Battle Plan involves going to town and buying a new one tomorrow. Fortunately Home Depot has one like we have (20.2 cu ft Frigidaire, US designed, made and put together) and it's on sale. Hopefully they can deliver it pronto, like next day (like they did the stove) and set it up temporarily in a different part of the kitchen. If it will be a couple of days, we'll have to move all the meats into the two big coolers or start canning it (SHTF scenario practice). There aren't any of the old freezer locker places around here. Food will get transferred as soon as the new one's chilled down. The floor will get repaired, new freezer unloaded, moved into place, then reloaded. Mission accomplished.

We can probably do the floor ourselves. Don't have time to wait on finding a contractor and then get fit into their schedule! Rip out any damaged flooring and replace the sub-floor if needed. Many moons ago I replaced the whole back porch floor on the old house to include sistering up a few funky joists. It's not hard to do.

We won't know the extent of any damage until that freezer gets moved out. Looks like there might be a small hole under one back corner. Sometime this year all the floor covering in the house will be redone so I don't care what the repaired flooring under the freezer looks like right now. Early American Warehouse.

5th Gear wants to keep the old freezer out under the pole shed and use it for storage. And if it works as far as mere cooling it could be used for temporary storage of garden veggies awaiting processing this summer. Or later buried in the ground as a root cellar!

Thanks for listening.

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***Ladies Section*** The freezer's failing.....