I had a second experience that really is beginning to make me wonder if our home is 'haunted'. I know it was a brand new home when we moved in, but still.... ok, the first weird thing was that back in Nov. our garbage disposal just stopped working - no warning, nothing.... We have an appliance warranty through our gas & electric provider so I called them to see if it included the g.d.... no, it didn't because I hadn't added it on - so, I added it on and figured I wait until after the holidays and call to have them come out to see if they could get it working ( I'd already tried the broom handle trick). It was making noise but more like a stalled noise than the argh argh argh of a scrap hungry monster.
In the meantime, I've been turning it on 'testing' it... last month, the scrap hungry monster sounds returned and it's working great again.... I did nothing to it except test it maybe once or twice a month.
Ok, now the ice cube maker in our refrigerator quit working MANY years ago.... the fridge is 25 years old and I think the ice cube maker quit after about five years.... then it started up again about 5 years later - for a short time - then quit again. Because it wasn't working, I took out all the removal parts so that I'd have a little more space for food. We used to keep trays of ice in on the top shelf under the ice maker but then hubby went to drinking his colas from the can and I drink mine from the 16 oz bottle so quit the ice trays. Then I found some silicone ice cube trays where the cubes were long and narrow and could slip into the opening of my pop bottles so I bought one.
Then I found the square ice cube silicone trays and bought one which I now keep on the top shelf and use for my insulated cup or on the weekends when I'm in the mood for an adult beverage.
Ok, so the other night I went to get ice cubes for my insulated cup and this is what I found in the freezer...
Inside those crudely drawn circles are machine made ice cubes....
here are all of them in the sink... can't begin to imagine how dirty that water must have been after sitting in the hose for who knows how long. Disgusting.
Now, hubby had told me that he had turned it off after it came back on the last time ( and we were hearing thunks with no idea where they were coming from). Now, he says that he didn't turn it off because he wouldn't have the slightest idea HOW to turn it off.
Apparently, from reading the instructions on the front of the ice maker, if you move the bar (seen in the first pic) into the upward position, that should keep it from making ice cubes. In my zeal to try to pack as much as I could into the little freezer so that I didn't have to try and get into the big freezer ( another story for another day maybe), I must have wedged that bar into the downward position and the ice maker took that as an order for ice cubes.
So, I think that solved the 'twilight zone' feeling on the ice maker.... but still doesn't explain the garbage disposal - and, as long as it keeps working, I'm fine with that.
Guild meeting tonight and I'm going, if only long enough to drop off a pattern for another member. And it's back to ripping out more stitches on the bovine quilt. Would really like to get it done so that I can take it to the guild meeting next week for 'show n tell'.
Ok, off to empty out the pockets of my winter coat so that I can toss it in the washer... it's way overdue for a good cleaning and it looks like winter might finally be over here... KNOCK ON WOOD!!
take care
ttyl
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