May 4, 2007
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Freezer Mess Update
The freezer meat mess is cleaned up. The good… it looks like the freezer is not broken after all! It appears that when we were cleaning out the flood in our basement from the last bad storm the knob that controls the freezer temp got turned down some how. It is at the bottom of the freezer (silly place to put the thing!) so probably we hit it with the mop without knowing. I had been smelling something weird all week and couldn’t figure it out. Now I know what it was! That meat had been defrosting for about three weeks!! EW! EW! EW!!!!
At least the dogs will be thankful that I am not blaming the smell on them any longer! *lol* We gave them two baths two days in a row thinking they kept rolling into something rotten outside. My Mini Dachshunds hate baths so this is good news for them. Not to mention we kept shooing them away every time they came near us when the baths didn’t work. Poor babies!
OK, the bad… we are out of luck of two BIG turkeys, several whole, free range chickens that we buy at a local farm and a whole bunch of cuts of lamb from when we bought a whole lamb. We had some other miscellaneous stuff too but the meat was the expensive part. Eric wrote down exactly what we lost in the case we could claim it on our home owners insurance but I doubt it since technically it wasn’t from a power outage. It was because of the flood though!
So who knows…I would just be happy at this point if my house didn’t smell like ten animals died in it! I can still smell a remnant of it in my bedroom. Lucky me to go to sleep dreaming of rotten meat huh? I can’t wait to air the house out again tomorrow! The temp is currently in the 30′s so I can’t leave the house open at night. As it is I was cold all day with the 50 degree weather and not being able to use the heat.
Ah…but life is still good even when it tosses you a BIG stink every once in a while!
Comments (5)
My parents used to use charcoal brickets on wet newspaper to absorb oders. I do not know if that would help with your large oder.
Ugh. Sorry about the stink. Make a linen spray with your favorite essential oil (lavender might be the strongest). Spray all of your fabrics and carpeting. I hope it goes away soon.
I ruined a whole deer one time by unplugging and old refridgerator we had in our basement. I lived down there and didn’t think anything was in it. Fortunately, it didn’t smell up the house.
If your freezer is less then a year old you may be able to claim on its warranty.
I need to send LadyBag over to read this one.. she still ribs me about the smell of burned popcorn that I left in her house when I was babysitting for her one evening. I will tell her it could have been worse. LOL