When you’ve got a lot of irons in the fire, sometimes you’re gonna get burnt.
This little saying has held true for many years now, and it’s a good one to remember when things don’t happen the way you thought they would.
Like this morning, for instance.
Well, actually it started Thursday morning.
Well - - - actually - - - it started last Saturday, but I didn’t know that until this morning.
Confused yet?
Well so Thursday morning I went downstairs to get some applesauce out of one of my upright freezers, and found to my dismay that the freezer had stopped freezing and thus the entire freezer was thawing. Not a good morning kind of thing to happen, you know? Well, with my trusty team of hardworking little helpers, we did a marathon freezer re-arrange job, and had all the food safely in other freezers in no time. Even with chickens to butcher and a steer at the locker, I thought I would have enough room with one less freezer; going forward with only four freezers would be a juggle but do-able. Crisis over, nothing lost except two packages of yellow zucchini which were fridge cold and fine to use but turning brownish and not very appealing - - - those got pitched. A few bags of fruit were taken upstairs to be used right away, but most everything else was re-frozen, and the items on the bottom shelves were, thankfully, still frozen solid.
Whew. That turned out pretty well, compared to what it could have been.
Which I well know. Several years ago an upright freezer door got left open a crack, and by the time it was discovered, most of the meat had thawed completely, with some on the top shelf being warm and needing to be pitched. Most of the rest of it got cooked up and refrozen. I was pretty pregnant at the time (think – overreactive hormones)(you moms know what I mean) and it was NOT a calm, cool, and collected moment for me. If I remember right, a frantic call to ASK brought her on the run, and with her helping me and the crew, we cooked up a lot of meat that day. I don’t remember the details, but I do remember the lesson: very little meat stored in the uprights.
But I digress.
Back to Burnt.
So this morning I went downstairs to get some applesauce out of one of my upright freezers and found to my dismay that the freezer had stopped freezing and thus the entire freezer was thawing. Not a good morning kind of thing to happen, you know?
The skeptic in me was really skeptical.
Two freezers on the blink in three days? Really?
And yet a niggling little thought in the back of my brain reminded me that last weekend we had been doing some electrical work with switches being flipped off and on. Dad had no niggling little thoughts about it – he knew exactly that last weekend we had been doing some electrical work with switches being flipped off and on.
A little sleuthing work later, and my diligent detective team discovered that, indeed, the main breaker box had one switch flipped off. Guess which one it was?
Of course – the one that had those two freezers plugged into it.
Plug the first freezer back in, flip the breaker switch on, and hmmmmmmm (that’s the sweet sound of the freezers), we’re back in business. No harm done except that the whole doorfull of blueberries had thawed, which means that they will refreeze in a nice big solid block which is not nearly as fun to munch on on a hot summer day as individual frozen blueberries.
But - compared to what it could have been (think of two full freezers of wasted food) (OUCH!), a doorfull of blueberry ice blocks isn’t that bad, right?
Yep, we got burnt a little this time, but not nearly as bad as we could’ve, that’s for sure!
And I will mention that I am very ready for a few irons to be pulled out of the fire – it seems like things are a little too het up around here lately (any guesses as to what I’m reading to the kids right now?)(book report to follow when things ain’t so het up
It’s been a wonderfully crazy week which I’m not going to blog about right now because that’s another day - - but stay tuned for an update soon - - and - - - - -
Have a wonderful Sunday!!!!!!!!!
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.
Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21
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