My really tall ones were laid down for the winter (low ceilings). I only made a million trips with the little ones & left the big stuff for DH & oldest son. I have a hernia & am not supposed to lift over 10 lbs (like I can live like that). The fun ones were the Rubbermaid containers, the really huge ones you could put a body in. LOL I can't get in the basement, front or back porch or dining room. Hope it warms up tomorrow night. I won't be able to sleep tonight & will be checking the temps & panicking if they get too low. I should have covered the tomatoes & peppers & now I can't see to do them. Linda

We got a couple of inches overnight too, but we also have the warmer temps forecast for Friday. So i guess this isn't quite permanent yet. Won't be too long from now, though. Twenty-five years ago on this day, we had just had our first big snowfall of the year, and dh had worked overtime plowing the highway. I was extremely pg, and the joke had been that i'd go into labour during the first snowstorm of the year. Guess what! LOL My daughter was born that evening. :)

Hi, OP here though I haven't been on this thread in several years... safemommy, I just measured my top and bottom freezer drawers, and 13.5" is exactly how far my drawers extend. I've removed the ice cube tray with that extension, but I don't think I've ever tried to remove the entire compartment. Paula Piekos, about three years after I got the replacement unit, my center rubber seals split, but I was able to get an authorized repairman to order and replace the seals, I did not have to order a whole new door. I am talking though only about the middle whether the two doors come together, not the ones that go all around perimeter where the door seals against the body. But I do vaguely recall that parts and labor for that came out to about $350, wasn't cheap. The new ones have been on for about seven years now, and are starting to split in one place - I try to wipe down the contact areas on the seals to reduce friction to keep them longer. When the repairman came, I was going to try to observe how he replaced those center seals, so I could do it myself next time, but I got distracted. I know they simply slide on and off; however, there's one or two hard plastic parts that he removed to get access. Thankfully I've had no major problem with the replacement fridge over 10 years. Occasionally the upper freezer drawer would mysteriously ice up and be hard to open/close; turns out if the ice scoop handle sticks up too much it prevents the drawer from being fully closed. The small fan at the bottom of the unit, behind the screwed on grill, got out of balance and off-center, and started to make horrible screeching, and took two repair visits to replace the fan and motor. But otherwise has worked reliably....

Michelle, I had thought about taking pictures but I guess all of that frying wiped my brain smooth. ALso, after seeing that cookingrvc had dinner in nice, civilized courses while ours was more of a fish free for all I realized that our christmas eve dinner probably wouldn't photograph very well :-). Plus the picking that goes on while things are being cooked and who ends up getting smacked with a wooden spoon for trying to sneak a piece of something while it's cooling off. We had (all thrown down on the table at the same time): Baccala, wrapped in dough & fried Alici (anchovies) wrapped in dough & fried fried smelts (dredged in seasoned flour & quick fried) fried calamari (same prep as smelts) Baked baccala & potatoes Baked, stuffed calamari (filled with the same stuffing we use for peppers but not sealed so the bodies shot across the pan away from the stuffing..next year I'm sewing them shut!) fried shrimp (flour, eggs and panko) angel hair with marinara sauce salad (our nod to a green vegetable) Stuffed clams (my SIL's contribution) And I just now realized now that I forgot to make the fried flounder! But nobody even missed it (including me) or asked for it. I'd better let my mom know that it's still in the fridge. The real trick was getting everything to the table hot but I was able to keep some things warm in the oven & saved the shrimp, smelts & calamari for last since they cook so fast. Dessert was a bunch of assorted cookies, hazelnut cream puffs with dulce de leche filling (oh my GOD these are good) and pandoro, cut into layers like a Christmas tree & topped with a candle so that we could sing happy birthday to baby Jesus. No torrone. I had brought a box to my mom about a month ago but apparantly it got eaten. Funny how that happens! Nina