Friday, January 25, 2013

Wanted: Cleaning Person and Slightly Warmer Temperatures

It's been cold in the Northeast (and much of the country) this week.  Bitter cold.  It was -2 when I left the house yesterday morning, but my car's thermometer refused to go below 0.  As though it decided that 0 was cold enough and really, is there a difference between 0 and -2? 

The house has a sunroom that is basically an enclosed deck with nice walls and a floor.  It's raised in the yard, so there is no foundation under the floor (it's where we store the kayaks and the lawn furniture!), it's got three exterior walls and a glass slider that opens to the kitchen.  A nice cool place with a cross breeze in the summer, and what we refer to as a walk in cooler in the winter.  The kegirator lives there and at New Year's we decided to put all the drinks (sodas, champagne, bottled water) out there so they'd stay cool without needing to by bags of ice for coolers or take up awkward space in the fridge. 

And since then, we've been lazy and haven't brought said beverages back into the kitchen, just bundling up to go out in what is essentially arctic temperatures just to get a caffeine fix. 

Last night Dave was doing paperwork in the office and I was playing video games in the living room.  The kitchen is in between and sunroom is off the back of the kitchen.  Dave came in to the living room and asked, "What fell?"

Me: Huh?

Dave:  I thought I heard something fall in the kitchen.

Me:  I didn't hear a thing.

Dave went out the kitchen and poked around but didn't see anything out of place.  This morning, I received the following:


So since we didn't have any plans for the weekend, I guess now we'll be spending the morning clean the soda off of the floors, walls and ceiling in the sunroom.  At least it will still be frozen so it'll be less sticky.  But of course, that also means we'll be cold while we clean.  Lesson learned--bring in the soda when the temperatures dip below freezing or you too can be cleaning Coke Zero off your walls.

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