Sunday Evening Post

The weather has become very pleasantly autumnal. We accomplished a lot this weekend. Foremost, we defrosted the refrigerator and freezer. Sadly, it took 2 hours to defrost the freezer and about 6 hours to defrost the fridge, and that includes using a hair dryer on high for about half an hour. See, the people who lived here before us don't seem to have actually been around much or really keep the place up much at all. When we moved in there was a punchbowl sized inverted ice dome hanging from the cooling elements at the top of the refrigerator compartment on the right side (almost perfectly round except for the indent where the fridge light meekly kept the ice at bay). So we've had this ice monster pressing down on our food and drink since we moved in, providing a higher percentage of humidity than you'd prefer in a refrigerator and definitely more water dripping all over everything. The freezer had a good inch and a half of permafrost on all five sides. A few weeks ago I mentioned to the owner that we were concerned about the refrigerator; was he stealing it's pensions and social security checks? does it ever shut up about Roosevelt and the good old days? when is it going to stop freezing the food and melting the ice cream? I said I would be willing to go halfsies on a decent used refrigerator and there seem to be many good ones on Craigslist. Well, he seems to think that a used fridge is on craiglist probably because there's something wrong with it. Might I refer you to the monstrous iceberg menacing my dairy products? If it has a door and it gets cold, it can't be worse that this one. Anyway, he said "Just defrost it and work with me and we'll see how things go." Oooookay. So now I have done battle with the depression era icebox and the fruits of its loom and we will now see just how long it takes for the iceberg to re-emerge. I suspect that the previous tenants never defrosted in the two years they lived here. Even so...dude, that's effed up.

I was considering mounting a web cam in there to monitor the progress of Titanica Two's formation. So far? Not much. But its only been a day.

I expect I'll be much happier with the refigerator now that we won't have little trickles of water dampening our produce and pooling on the tops of tupperware. yay.

Felix got a little bit under the weather. Today he had a fever of about 101. I'm hoping it is due to teething, but it just as well could be a virus or other bug he picked up from other kids. Tis the season. And he is not just a walker, but a runner, a skipper, and a jumper (and a faller downer). He now actually prefers to walk if he is going for more distance. Still prefers the old kneewalking for quick, short bursts, but if he has to go more than five feet he promptly pops up and goes for a jog.

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous the past few days. 60s-70s in the sun during the day, 50s at night, clear. This is what October is supposed to feel like. I haven't checked, but somehow I imagine Minneapolis is still hovering in the 80s and people are complaining about how horrible it is, except for the one day when it only hits 79 and then they'll all be "Oh, this is wonderful. Just wait until it's -200 degrees outside" which will not happen until mid February, shortly after the first snowfall if the past few years are any indication.