Worried about the climate in my personal habitat

I’m currently undergoing climate change inside my home.

I’m worried.

My garage is heating up like nobody’s business. It’s pretty easy to sweat completely through a shirt just getting loaded up in the car. The car displays the outside temperature in the garage as 91 degrees Fahrenheit.

That’s pretty warm.

But as high as that temperature is there is an advancing ice age in my freezer. When that sucker started frosting up it really got with it. I thought it would take humid conditions to create a big problem with frost in a freezer.

One thing I’m pretty sure of is we haven’t had much of that humidity stuff around here, especially in that arid desert of a garage in which this freezer resides.

I defrosted the beast about a year ago when we got our beef. It has been about as full as it has ever been and that may be making a difference too. I probably need to utilize the refrigerator’s freezer more so I can avoid opening the icy beast as much.

I think most folks don’t have to defrost their freezers in this day and age with modern advances utilizing defrost cycles in the operation. This machine doesn’t have this technology, however, the darn thing is half a century old.

My wife and I have been married 40 years and she took the freezer in from someone who traded for a new freezer about the time we were married. Even if the previous owner only owned it for 10 years, that makes it 50. I believe I checked the serial number once and it showed it to be more like 20 years old when we got it.

We’ve always assumed the thing would up and quit us one day but that doesn’t appear likely to happen soon.

Actually, I think if I left the door open it would drop that garage temperature down to about 18 degrees and we would have frost hanging off the ceiling.

While the freezer outside is making too much ice, the refrigerator in the kitchen quit making ice in the icemaker. I’ve replaced the icemaker once and worked on it a few times but it still likes to wet the floor or fill the ice bucket with water when I least suspect it.

I finally gave up and shut the water off and shut the icemaker down and bought silicone ice trays. Yeah, that’s a pain after you’ve been spoiled to ice anytime all the time.

The temperature in my bedroom at night is too cold without the bedspread and too hot with it. So I kick it back and pull it up a couple times a night.

I’m coping with my macro climate change but I’ve got to admit I’m worried about the future of the habitat in which I live.

I can hardly wait for the hate mail to roll in on this tongue-in-cheek bit of writing. Chill out folks.

Karl Terry writes for Clovis Media Inc. Contact him at:

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