Nothing in the Larder

Well there's nothing left in the freezer except some peeps from Easter.

Shockingly they are good until 2016 - that's reassuring huh?

This raises a few questions:

Why do I keep peeps in the freezer? Well they are delicious frozen. I don't know why I havent eaten them yet???

Why is the freezer empty? because we are getting a new refrigerator. This one is 15 years old and quite frankly it owes us nothing. Every once it a while it lets out a big sigh. We figured we better replace it before it lets out one last final sigh.

Why am I calling it the larder? Well I think of that Simpson's episodes where Moe calls Homer fancy for calling the garage a garage and not a car hole. I know it's not the same but it just makes me laugh and gives me an excuse to find that clip on youtube.

So the delivery is set for the end of the week. We moved everything from the freezer to the downstairs freezer. The only thing that got thrown out was the bones from last year's Thanksgiving turkey - guess I never got around to making that turkey soup huh? All things considered - that is not so bad-only one thing from everything that was stowed in there.

We took off all the magnets - can't believe how many of them we had. Also all of the posts cards. Since the new one is stainless steel, I don't know where we'll be putting future post cards??

Now I have to move on to the refrigerator. Who knows what's lurking in the back! The only thing worse than that will be what's underneath. We haven't cleaned under there in ages. The refrigerator is really wedged in between the cabinet and the wall. It's really difficult to move so we've honestly probably have only cleaned under there twice that I can remember. The new refrigerator is a shade thinner so we will be able to clean under it more often!

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