1:17 pm - 51 degrees - blue sky, scattered clouds, light breeze...
Last week, we had a life
changing event... for the past 6 years we have lived without the use of a refrigerator,
and last Friday, we finally pulled our refrigerator out of the storage unit and
brought it home!
You simply cannot imagine my
level of excitement!
When we first moved up here 6
years ago, our only power source was a small Honda generator – not big enough to
do much of anything other than run small power tools, charge cell phones and charge
our laptop. So our 2-year-old
refrigerator went, with the majority of the rest of our belongings, to the
storage unit.
In the beginning, to solve our
refrigeration issue, we went to Costco and picked up an Igloo MaxCold 165 Quart
cooler to use as our “fridge”. It
worked, it did what it was supposed to, and we were definitely glad to have
it. I believe that we learned how to
function very well using a cooler as a fridge.
Fast forward six years, I now
have a love-hate relationship with the cooler.
I obviously loved it because it was our “fridge”. I didn’t love it because the cooler gobbled
up large bags of ice just about every other day (I don’t even want to know how
much money we spent on bags of ice over the past six years), and even though it
is a fairly large cooler – space was definitely limited... the dislikes could
on, but I’m stopping there.
Back to the exciting news! Even though our off-grid power system isn’t
100% completed yet, we do now have enough power to run our energy efficient wide-by-side
refrigerator and freezer! We now have a
freezer here too!!! Oh, such a happy day
and a complete life changer!!!
Mine have been an inside flushing toilet (check!), washer & dryer (check!), real refrigerator (check!), and running hot water (coming soon!).
