Freezering

I got my new freezer today. I'm happy to have it, but I'm afraid I temporarily blew my back out a little when I helped the guy from Home Depot get it down into my basement. He was supposed to have a helper, but there had apparently been a couple of walkouts on the job. He was actually from Miami, but had come up to help haul things. As it turns out, we both lived in the same general area in Chicago. Small world.

Unfortunately, we couldn't get the freezer to its permanent home while he was here. When I got home from work, I had to actually remove a sink from the laundry room and move it to fit my new big appliance through there. It would have been fine, except that I had already shoved the freezer and lodged it in the door. As a consequence, I had to climb on top and over it, then make my way down a wall so that I could remove that sink. All that with my aching back. I don't know the meaning of the word "easy."

Anyway, it's there now, in my basement, ready to freeze up a storm. The plan Saturday is to get six bushels of roasted chilis. I'm hoping that will last me the year, or close to it. Last fall, I only got four bushels, and I was out by April.