Those little bumps in the road

Yes, I know it looks strange to see the refrigerator doors hanging open like this. But there is a method to my madness. We have noticed that for the past two weeks our freezer didn’t keep the ice cream quite hard enough. I thought it was because there was too much in the freezer and the air wasn’t circulating so I removed a lot of the food to our stand up freezer in the garage. But that didn’t seem to help. Then I noticed that the milk wasn’t staying ice cold in the top of the refrigerator either. It was not warm it didn’t seem exactly cold enough. Then the ice maker stopped making ice. That is when I knew something major must be wrong. 

   I called the repairman but unfortunately he is extremely busy this time of year and ddn’t know when he could get out here. We did get on his list. One other time we had left on vacation and accidentally left the freezer door open just a smidge. When we got back the ice had formed all over the back of the freezer and we had to have him come. He thawed it out with a hair dryer but told us if we had left it sit 24 hours unplugged it would have thawed. 

   So we had nothing to lose. I unloaded everything from the freezer to the one in the garage and took all the food out of the top and put it in our garage. You must know that in Bradford our garage is as cold as a refrigerator.  We unplugged it and are let it sit all night.  Today we will see if that helped any and unfroze anything that was blocked. Wish us luck.