Interesting, these past 12 hours…

Overnight, there was a massive water main break in an area of the city not all that close to us, but a route I might have taken later this morning. Good thing we’ve got plenty of alternate routes around here. Still, it would be fun to drive by, and see such a large outdoor skating rink. Maybe the odd frozen goose or two.

Earlier, Mrs. That Dan Guy awoke, only to find the power go out shortly thereafter. The whole neighbourhood was hit with an outage – NOT an outrage, although if someone had been in the middle of cooking bacon and eggs, they may have been a little outraged, if not at least heavily miffed.

It all began last night though – interestingly enough in the light of a full moon. I had come downstairs to get some sort of healthy snack from the freezer portion of our fridge, and noticed a crackling sound inside the dang thing. When I looked inside, I could see a bright orange glow (NOT Orange Glo, the miracle household cleaner), a strip not unlike a coil or element from a portable heater illuminated inside the freezer.

Naturally, I c*apped my drawers, hollering for MTDG to get the heck downstairs, and see this situation for herself.

Which she did. We determined we had to pull the fridge out, which kind-of also helped pull my back out a bit. After a quick inspection, we determined that there was “nothing to see here folks”. The same thing was determined about the fridge.

We’ll surf The Google this morning to see if this is normal operating procedure for a household freezer, or if we have a potential time bomb ticking away in our kitchen.

Life – never dull here in the Such Is Life household…

Chow for now!!