Well I don't pray for fridges but I'm thinking you can whip up some sort of gumbo thing with your okra corn and chicken.

Good luck (that I'll give you!)

When life hands you thawing okra, corn and chicken -- make Brunswick Stew! I have two refrigerators and don't use either ice maker. I need the space more than I need the ice. I hope yours works for you.

Crud Linda! That isn't something that's fun to deal with.

What I do find interesting is that you folks in the North can put your food outside in the winter to save it, right? Too bad this isn't a snow day for you.

Best of luck with this situation,
Cathy

Temperature is about 60 here today....
BUT....the ice just dropped!!!

I am an ice junky...I always have a glass of something with ice tinkling at my elbow...I have ice in my morning juice, in my leftover coffee, in my mid afternoon tea, in my water in my Scotch and even often in my wine...
I hope the ice continues to dump!!

Cathy, it's 39F here right now and we're going to get snow every day for the next 4 days.

I have an old refrigerator and the ice machine doesn't work. I use ice cube trays, but I only use ice in the summer for iced tea so that's good enough for me.

I'd send good thoughts, Linda, but your ice has already dropped, LOL.

Annie

I completely understand when our ice maker stopped working DH said buy a new one refrigerator asap. I told him the ice maker could probably be fixed but it would take a week before the repairman could come out. His exact words were "my god we are not barbarians we need crushed ice" I guess I know what his priorities are. LOL He lived through the week and the ice maker got fixed. Take care of your old refrigerator because the new ones are a plastic piece of crap.

Corn and chicken I could handle but wouldnÂt have a clue as what to with okra.

Claudia

The okra was for soup....apparantly I forgot I had some and bought more.....
And there's lots and lots of pesto and at least 2 pounds of wild rice, 2 partial packages of pine nuts and a package of very lean ground beef and a package of Italian sausage....from a snowy day when spaghetti and meatballs sounded good...
But the ice has now dumped 3 times!! Yeah!!
Linda C....doin' the happy dance!

When I bought my large freezer I opted for the larger model which didn't have an automatic defroster instead of the smaller with for the same price. I simply defrost it the end of January beginning of February every year, that way I can load up laundry baskets with all my frozen food and throw it out on the enclosed porch overnight while it defrosts. I just did it this past February as a matter of fact - I had skipped the year before so the frost was thick!!

One of the few benefits of living where it's cold!

Good luck with your fridge Linda - ours conked out not long ago, but Bobby managed to figure out what was wrong - it was a minor fix - and it's still going strong. It's roughly 22 years old tho, so I don't know how much longer it will last. I actually want a new one with an ice maker - I don't have one - but I can wait till this one croaks.

Lisa

We ditched our icemaker a few years back due to a leak that we didn't want to risk happening again, now we just buy bagged ice. It amuses me how attached people are to ice, me included. My sister uses it as a diet aid, chomping away on cups of crushed ice all day. If I could, I would love an icemaker that made diner ice.

Dontcha love that sound of the ice dumping? Means nice fresh ice at the ready.

What's "diner ice"?

Sprout, we have one of those water alarms sitting under the refrigerator, as well as all water inlets in the house, they go off just like a smoke alarm when one drop of water hits them. We had a flood some years ago and donÂt want to do it again. I bought them from Amazon and we change the batteries when we change the water filter about every 6 months.

Claudia

I'm with you....Ice in everything. You must put ice in milk too!!! LOL
Sure hope your ice maker is going to continue to work...plunk, plunk....my kitty always goes over to the frige when the water starts to fill the ice trays...he thinks there is something for him to pounce on..LOL

Linda

About the only time I use ice is in the ice chest when we're traveling, but DH likes ice in his drinks. My teeth can't handle ice cold drinks, so I never use ice in my water. I do have one of those fridges that has the water dispenser with the filtered water, and the water comes out cool enough to taste good without being too cold for my teeth.

I think Foodonastump has the right idea about making gumbo with some of your ingredients, but I don't know about the pesto in it. It might work.

Sally

Another ice junkie here, have to have it. Glad to hear all is well and the machine is doing its thing.

I'm thinking "diner ice" is like the stuff they have at Sonic....kind of looks like rabbit poop..lol.. and it is easy to munch on.

David

Here is a link that might be useful: Ice

Naah....I'll take my own ice....at least I know what's in the water!

LOL! A shot of Crown or Scotch should take care of any after taste...lololol!

Forgot about the chicken, okra and all...

Linda, I'm glad the Ice Queen is back in business!

David, I can't wait to use that term...dinner ice. Thanks.

I am an ice freak too. I order my tea/soda with extra ice; that rarely happens so I order a glass of ice.

I have saved those polar packs that come with the internet ordered food. Last week I thought there must be something I can do with them--the get pin holes a the gel oozes out. I have flavored water bottles that are square, I filled them with the polar pack gel and keep one or two in the freeze to use in coolers. They fit nicely in the corners of the cooler.

I also had to empty and clean the freezer section of the basement refrigerator this week....that may be another thread....but let's just say "some dummy" tosed a couple of loaves of bread into the freezer and a bag of scallops slipped and kept the door from closing completely.
Anyhow....as I was emptying and defrosting and scrubbing frozen scallop goo off the freezer....I knoticed that I had enough freezer packs to keep an igloo solid during the month of august!
Linda C....who lives alone...

I wonder who could have done that!!!

I fess up to stuffing something into the freezer without checking to see if the door closed. I guess this is one time I'm glad I don't have a basement where it would go unnoticed for a long period of time.