It appears today will be a 2 post day, due to a pretty busy Saturday and no time to sit and make a post. I know, I know... this hurts me more than it hurts you.
So let me just say - we started out by working out (the usual), then I raced home before The Dad so that we couldn't get home and just be lazy for a bit, which would have happened had I not come home, showered, started laundry, stripped the bed, yada yada yada. Then it was off to Coscto, Rosauers and Albertsons - home to unload and knew full well that by the time that was all done, it would be time to head out to Cheney for the annual Red-White Spring Scrimmage to watch #7. Our last Red & White game. :( As parents of a player anyhow.
See here: See # 7 here!
But when we got home and I opened up the fridge, water poured everywhere. Well, that's an exaggeration, but not... really. Kind of.
Let me back up and tell you a story that you may not already know
"The Story About A Refrigerator".
Once upon a time, a WOTY/MOTY and her husband, aka "The Dad" had a major kitchen remodel. They planned and they shopped (and by "they", I mean "she") and found all of the "necessary" items to go into that new kitchen. New plates and silverware (thanks to The Dad leaving them at places of work over the past 22 years, these were "necessary" purchases) and appliances had to be picked out (and though we were shopping for KITCHEN appliances, The Dad wasn't with WOTY when she finalized this deal so a new washer and dryer got added on - also "NEEDED") and so on and so forth. The WOTY wanted an uber oven since she hosts a lot of family holidays, parties, etc and with that a monster refrigerator. So she got them. I am going to leave out the brands for reasons you will soon read about.
So less than a year into the new kitchen and appliances - the ice maker in the uber expensive, super large refrigerator stopped working. Puddles of water were dripping down the front of the water/ice dispenser and not once, not twice, but three times did the refrigerator maker send out the local store repairman to replace this "board" in it. It never worked. So then we were told - well, they could ship us a new refrigerator, the same one, only in stainless (not an option) or a smaller, somewhat like item and they would move the old (9 months old) one out. The stainless wasn't an option for two reasons - WOTY had just gotten rid of their old stainless and went to black and ALL of the other appliances in the new kitchen are... yes, black. The second being, well, the same as the first. The smaller fridge was also not an okay solution since the kitchen was designed around the specs of the freakin appliances. How stupid would that look? I'll tell you... STUPID. So the final option, which had to go through all of this approval, scrutiny and yet another diagnostics test by the company - was, a refund of the cost of the refrigerator, they will not move it out if we bought a new one and their warranty ends. (Though WOTY bought the 5 year deal at the retailer and THAT is still in tact.) So... the family used that money to go to Cabo with last year. Duh! And they just buy a bag of ice that goes in the really big freezer. They tried putting the ice in the ice maker, to just pump it out, but it melted. So that was no solution and getting ice from a bag isn't that big of a deal. Remember how we got it when we were kids? Ice trays.
So fast forward to Friday night when the couple was sitting on the couch after The Dad got home from the EWU golf fun day with glassy, red eyes that he claimed were "wind burn"... <sigh> They started a movie and then heard this familiar sound and WOTY looked to The Dad and said:
WOTY: Did that sound like the ice maker?
The Dad: No. Did it? Wouldn't that be something.
WOTY: That would be stupid. Seriously? No...
The Dad: <closes eyes again because they were still stinging from "wind burn".
WOTY: <decides it's the beverage center under the island that made the noise.>
The End.
So back to yesterday. I open the refrigerator, water spills out and I look to the ice maker. There are FIVE ice cubes in there and they are not melting. So... is there a leak? What's the story? I pull out the container thingy, and there is ice frozen... not ice cubes, but like the water that melted underneath the thing that holds the made ice that drops into it that has melted, ice. So I go to task chipping it out and making it all pretty and non-icy. I pad the refrigerator with towels and paper towels so we can "test" to see if uncovering spots that were iced over makes it work any better.
We leave for the scrimmage and come home to feed the hounds and nothing. No ice. No drips. No nothing. So it was a fluke. Whatever. Weird, but whatever.
We go to the 31st annual Killin' Dinner, Dance and Auction that follows the scrimmage and come home from that and still, nothing. Not a hint of a drip. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
This morning I hear "The Drop". ICE! Again! Really? So I come out and there's water inside the fridge, the paper towels had taken all they could over the course of the night, but it wasn't as much as yesterday. I open the ice container and "wah lah!" ice. 5 cubes. Not melting. Not stuck. Just minding their own "ice" business. So I clean up the bit of water and re-stock the paper towels and off to the dog park we go.
Hang on...
Okay, I'm back. No water in the fridge. No drips on the dispenser...
AND TEN ICE CUBES! I'm not going to get my hopes up - but could it be? Could it be that my refrigerator is "back"? Could it be that I no longer have to buy bags of ice or tell the story when guests go the her for ice? I'm not getting my hopes up, but this is looking semi-promising. Definitely could be worth the $278 in tax we didn't get back for the refund.
Just sayin.
I will tell you the brand if you ask, discreetly. Certainly you understand. :)
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