First of Many Unexpected Surprises

When our South Bend house sold everything except the necessities went into storage. This included our refrigerator, no room for it in the world's smallest kitchen. We bought this fridge when we built the house twenty years ago. We had taken out the door insets and put in hammered copper Formica to match the stove hood, we also did that to the trash compactor and dishwasher. When the house went on the market we took all of that out and went back to the black appliances. So this fridge has gone through several transformations over they years and served us well.

I was quite excited to get my big fridge back when we moved. At the rent house I had to cut down on the number of salad dressings I kept in the fridge. Could only have one choice of juice available. Life was really hard!

One of the things we discovered in our new place was behind the fridge was a cut out that was neatly trimmed out with flashing just the size of dollar bills and is about 2 and a half feet tall. Looks like lots of money could have been hidden there and what an ingenious idea. Bill put a dollar bill there and is hoping it will grow and fill the space.

So first thing we did was plug old reliable into and wait for the cool air to fill the interior so I could fill it with all our goodies. Nothing but hot air, movers said just give it a while sometimes after sitting in storage they can take a bit to start cooling down. Next day still just hot air so off to buy a new refrigerator. We weren't expecting to do that until we had built out the new kitchen but you do what you gotta do.

 Oh My Goodness, new fridges are amazing!!!!! The previous weekend we had gone to Kansas to celebrate our great niece, Gwendolyn's, birthday and baptism and had talked with our niece Amanda and her sister in law about their french door fridges so at least I had some kind of idea on what to look for.

I love my new fridge but getting it in was a chore. This one bedroom apartment has a small front door and the fridge was bigger than it.

So we had to take the door off of the fridge. We are all college graduates, hold very good jobs that require a lot of brain power and deductive reasoning. But, how in the world does this door come off.

 The guys are hard at work looking all over the fridge for the best way to take the doors off. Today's fridges are do full of electronics there are wires running everywhere.

All the bins were removed, all shelving taken out and still no way for it to fit through the door. I was beginning to think the fridge would be staying outside the apartment. That would work, a little inconvenient but it wouldn't be for ever.

The guys were getting nowhere with this project and then Tiffany says, "Oh look here are instructions ." Yes, the manufacturer had very kindly put instructions on the back of the fridge on how to do this. Just like men and maps, just forge ahead and figure it out.

So I now have a fridge in the kitchen. But it wasn't as pretty as it was in the store. There was
 a sticker we couldn't get off the front of the door. At least the sticker said Made in America. Bill stopped in to the store and commented on the haziness and what should we be cleaning it with.

Du-u-uh take the plastic off people. It's really shiny then.

Love my new fridge, it holds lots and lots of salad dressings and juices, and has more drawers than is imaginable.