End of the Ice Age

You'd never find evidence of global warming in my freezer. Well, maybe today there was some man-made global warming. I spend the better part of 14 hours defrosting my freezer.

"Defrosting." Pff. AS IF.

Deglaciering, more like. I estimate I removed 60 lbs. of ice, most of it 6 or 7 inches thick. No exaggeration. At one point I thought I was going to get crushed by a huge slab I levered off the sides but was unprepared to carry or move (especially as there were also two trays of boiling water underneath). There are still some iceberg-sized chunks melting in my bathtub.

So believe me when I tell you the most beautiful thing I saw today was the back wall of the freezer compartment.