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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

A few days ago while we were discussing gas versus electric 
appliances I noted that I have a three-way refrigerator: twelve 
volt/hundred-twenty volt/propane. I bought it about thirty years ago 
to put in a bread truck camper called Sunbeam. I sold Sunbeam but 
kept the fridge but sometime in the intervening years I had decided 
that it didn't work and put it in an upstairs storage room to await a 
fix. Never store a large or unwieldy object in an upstairs room. 
Chris is now painting the upstairs rooms and wanted it out of there. 
So, being a wuss with women, I of course immediately capitulated and 
enlisted Don to help me move it downstairs and onto the trailer, 
thinking it would next visit an RV refrigerator doctor. Commonsense 
whispered in my ear and we moved it into the East Wing to try it out. 
After Don fetched his handy electric wire splicing kit and fixed the 
cord that a rat or mighty mouse had chewed apart, we plugged it in. 
After several hours it was not cold and I figured my memory was not 
in fact defective. But I turned the control to a lower setting and 
left it plugged in overnight. This morning the freezer compartment 
was at minus twenty degrees and the box was at twenty-plus. So 
although old and having been subjected to abandonment to extreme heat 
and cold, it didn't leak any vital substance. Apparently it simply 
needs time to build pressure. Now to see if it works on propane.

So I am high on the Swedish refrigerator company Dometic.

But of course I am very wussy where Swedish women are concerned. What 
sane man wouldn't be?