On 8/7/2014 7:44 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "Nancy Young" > wrote

>> The day before we were getting married, I had to defrost the
>> crappy freezer compartment in our apartment refrigerator.
>> Thankless chore. I'd gotten away with chipping at the ice
>> before, after using pots of hot water. Whatever, I've blocked
>> it from my memory.
>
>> PSSSSSSSSSST. I punctured the freon line. Just what you need
>> when you barely have two nickels to rub together as it is. We
>> had to cough up like $75 for a replacement refrigerator, the
>> complex must have been used to fixing them.
>
> Oh dear !!! What were you chipping the ice off with?

It was so long ago. All I know is that I was in a hurry.
Doesn't excuse my method.

> I use a wooden
> spatula and when the ice melts (using the hairdryer) it come off with very
> little effort. Just need to ease it off a bit)

>> Fast forward a couple of weeks. We had a bicycle in the
>> apartment. PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST. I Didn't Do It! Heh.
>> Oh, the bike tire just decided to spring a leak. Which
>> seems weird by itself, but I had a little moment of panic.
>
> Oh dear ... lolol sorry!!! Of course you didn't do it dear ... we all
> recognise that .. don't we girls and boys ;p

(laugh) I never heard of a tire just springing a leak like
that. A slow leak, of course. But just to burst, no.

>> I would never buy anything but frost free. Hell no, that
>> or an oven that isn't self cleaning.
>
> I have a small under counter freezer in the kitchen which is frost free,
> because I am in and out of it fairly regularly, but the chest freezer
> ... no
> way would I have frost free! I just don't want that defrosting
> regularly no matter now minimally.

I don't mind climbing a ladder to paint a house. Moving
a gazillion wheelbarrows of mulch, I'll do that. I am not
defrosting a freezer. I hate it that much.

nancy