How cold is cold?

   ......or how cold is freezing?
Just to let you know this post is not about the weather.....  at least not directly, but as a result!

We have an extra refrigerator in the garage for the typical overflow of when I go on one of my mad cooking rampages or more importantly for my "slight" obsession with this.  A few weeks ago when the temperature was hovering in the single digits I went out to the garage to get my ice cream & found (insert scream) I could drink it instead of using a spoon.  It was very obvious to me that the freezer was not working.  I informed Popster of the dilemma but his solution was to wait a couple days til the weather warmed up to see if that would make a difference.  Meantime I emptied the freezer of all essential ice cream food!

Sure enough after a couple days of warmer temps the freezer got colder.  Is it me or does that sentence make no sense?  I waited more than a week & went out to stock up on the ice cream supply......you never know when the powers in charge will decide to do away with the only flavor I will eat!  The very next day I went to put something in the freezer & the ice cream was getting soft again(insert louder scream).

 Popster & I had the same argument discussion about getting it fixed. 

He, however, is not completely convinced it's not working & decides to go to the store to get a thermometer to check it out.  Who am I to stand in the way of a man on a mission so I quietly move all my stash to the freezer in the kitchen.  He was so proud of the thermometer he bought as it had a "safe zone" on it for both the freezer & refrigerator section. 

I just nodded my head because it was then  I decided that you can't fight city hall or if it comes down to it, a man armed with a cool (pun intended) refrigerator thermometer!

I, however, did mutter under my breath that when you can drink ice cream with a straw it's a pretty good indication that the freezer is not working!