One nice thing about renting...

is that when the refrigerator dies, you inform the landlord. It started off this morning with a pinging sound in the kitchen. The same noise that the rice cooker makes while heating up but I checked and nothing was plugged in that normally makes that noise. So off to work and went. I came home and mentioned the noise to my husband before he went down to make dinner. He had heard it also in the morning but did not think anything about it. However, as it happened, when he went to take things out of the frig to make dinner, he noticed it was warm. He checked the thermometer and it said 55 degrees, then checked the freezer...everything was melted. So off to get ice for the ice chest. Luckily we have a little mini frig upstairs in the bedroom. So we were able to save a lot of things, except what was in the freezer.

In the morning, the landlord will be called and the meantime. We will work around this issue. Thank goodness for the ice chest we bought years ago that keeps things cold for days. Yes, we went camping once with Mr80grit's family once and we need it. Sure has come in handy over the years!