What a whirlwind week. It's only Thursday and I feel like I've put in two weeks already! This was my week to be in charge of the Clothes Closet--and it's one of my favorite things to do. Monday went fine, plenty of help and a good time by all. We weren't busy at all, only 23 families in. Yesterday was a different story. I was by myself for a while after we opened and, of course, we were very busy. In the first two hours alone we had more families than on Monday. I had one person help during the morning and one during the afternoon. We ended up with 44 families in.
The big event was celebrating Nana's 90th birthday. Our Sunday school class had a luncheon on Tuesday to celebrate hers and Jessie's 79th birthday. It was a good time. I had a PCGS executive meeting then that afternoon. Then yesterday, Charles and I joined the Boulings in Springfield to further celebrate Nana's birthday. We met the family at Golden Corral. There were 14 of us, all stuffing ourselves with good food! Then it was back to Lori's for cake and ice cream. Oh, and it rained and rained while we were at supper.
My biggest problem this week has been our freezer. We noticed late last week that the ice cream was soft, but everything else seemed to be well frozen. Charles put a thermometer in the freezer and it registered 20 degrees, which isn't too bad. But he was worried, so Sunday afternoon we cleaned the freezer out and threw away at least 4 garbage bags full of either soften items or items that had been in there for up to 10 years (that's how long we've had this freezer). Cleaning it out didn't help so we decided that a new freezer was the solution. Tuesday morning I found a freezer, paid for it and set up delivery for today. We weren't going to be home through the day to have it delivered before now. The temp went up to 40 degrees yesterday and I just knew that we were going to have to discard ALL the food. It wasn't a pleasant thought. I figured that I could salvage the blackberries and strawberries but the meat and other stuff would probably have to go. Well, when we opened the freezer to move stuff into the new one, the only soft stuff was ice cream. Everything else was still frozen solid. Thank goodness. This new freezer is an energy star freezer so after having the old one running constantly for the last week, this will be much better. It also had a light so I can find things easier. And it has an alarm if something should go wrong.
So, I've had to repair/replace two things in the last week. What is the third one going to be? You know things come in threes.
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