Did you know that there was a time before frigerraidors, ovens, and coffeemakers? How did the world survive back then?

Our frigerraidor died and it’s all Mommy’s fault! Daddy didn’t feel good last night, so he askeded us to make dinner – pancakes! We’re gore-met chefs, so Mommy helps us by being our sous chef. (She brings us everything we need and picks us up, so we can work with the ingredients in Peoples’ size containers. She also does the gooey work, so we don’t have to get dirty and need a b-a-t-h.) We askeded her to check the freezer to see if we had any frozen fruit to make a nice fruit compote on top of the pancakes. Is looking for fruit in a small freezer a hard job?

To dig deeper, she had to move some chicken. That’s when it happened! She said, “Ut-oh! The frozen chicken is thawed!”

We all came running – Daddy to see what else was thawed, and we needed to make sure our hotdogs were OK. Everything else was thawed, including our emergency hotdogs!!!

That’s when Mommy decided to mention that she thought the soda had been a bit warm all day, and that she finally figured out what that noise was in the kitchen. We vaguely ‘member her telling Daddy that she kept hearing clicking sounds late at night, since she has been having a small bout of insomnia again. (Oh, come on now! Do you really listen to girls when they talk so much?!) She checked it out a few times, and guessed either it was the rain hitting the air-conditioner, or the mice had come back into our house.

Now, whenever we see mice in our home, we invite them to move into our Hotel NOLA to stay and help Molly, Silverback and the other mice keep the Hotel well stocked and clean, so we knew it wasn’t mice.

We helpeded Daddy take temperature readings of the frig part and the freezer part. (Daddy was a heating and air-conditioning mechanic right before we were born, so we assisteses him in such matters.) The clicking sound was the compressor clicking on and then off quickly – a sure sign that not all is well. The frigerraidor was already almost as warm as the kitchen air, and the freezer was even too warm to be a frigerraidor!

We had to askeses the obvious question – why do frigerraidors die right after going grocery shopping? No one knows!

We’re kinda lucky though! Back when Daddy was beary sick and on treatment, he was too sick to keep coming downstairs to go to the frigerraidor, so we bought a Teddy Bear size frigerraidor to keep upstairs, along with the TV and ‘puters, so we could live in the study, until Daddy was better. Mommy turned it on again, and came back downstairs to help us finish making dinner. (We used sugar-free maple syrup, a’cuz we had no fruit in the freezer.)

After dinner, the upstairs frig was cool enough to stock it with the essentials. Instead, Mommy took up milk, eggs, a small head of lettuce, scallions, a couple of cans of soda, and creamer. OK, the creamer is a good idea, since we need that in our coffee, but the rest?! Sheer silliness, since we needed some place to put our hotdogs! We did tell her that we moved all the junk out for our hotdogs!

Daddy and Mommy kept saying, “Good thing it’s trash night! All that thawed meat would have stunk, if we couldn’t throw it out immediately.”

We thought, “Good thing you have us, a’cuz Daddy wasn’t feeling good, and Mommy was tired from not sleeping right and from lugging all that junk and creamer upstairs.”

We helped get the trash out!

It really wasn’t the bestest time to lose our frigerraidor. The temperatures are finally going into the 50s in the daytime, which means we couldn’t use the front porch to keep our food, a’cuz it’s just too warm in the daytime. Fortunately, it is cold enough out there, at night, to keep the cans of soda out there, saving the couple of cans in the little fridge for the afternoon, when the sun warms up the front porch!

We need a new fridge! BTW, did we mention our oven died a couple of weeks ago? We don’t have a new one yet, since Mommy and Daddy can’t get out to shop, but we’ve been using the toaster oven, instead, and the stove above the oven still works, so that hasn’t been too tough!

We’re going to have to rough it, until we can get a new fridge and oven!

Did you know that there was a time before frigerraidors, ovens, and coffeemakers? How did the world survive back then?