Refer Madness

In the Navy, we referred to refrigerators as refers.  Seems logical, and it's one of the more benign phrases I learned in the Navy.  In any event, Sears was scheduled to deliver the new fridge between noon and 2pm.  Just before 11am, I got a call from the delivery truck and was informed that they were running "a little ahead of schedule," and would be at our house in 5 minutes!  While Amanda unloaded the refrigerator into our ice chests, I cleared a path through our garage for the delivery crew.  As it turned out, they had to remove our front door and the doors on the new fridge to comfortably maneuver the heavy beast inside.  Amanda was in charge of loading up the new fridge and, as you can see, knew what her #1 priority was.

At first, the refrigerator section would not cool down below the initial 80-degree mark.  Something was wrong.  I was so desperate that I even read the manual.  It appears that the refrigerator went into some sort of safe mode because of the extended time that I had the doors open while removing all the plastic protective sheeting and tape.  A 10-minute power down reset the fridge to normal operation and it finally started to cool down.  Amanda transferred our food from the ice chests and a bunch of microwave meals from the basement freezer to substantially load the thing up.

This evening, I ran a new water line from the basement and through the wall behind the refrigerator for the chilled water dispenser and rolled the refrigerator into its designated position.



























Earlier in the day, I finished drilling and nailing the floor boards along the east wall of the kitchen and out into the hallway by the family room.  Tomorrow, we start installing cabinets in the kitchen!

Drilling the tongue of floorboards near the wall