I shared a post just the other day about Desiree and her rookie winter mistake of trying to wash an outside window while the temperature remained in the single digits. Even given that, I must sing her praises for quickly adapting to winter in most aspects. She loves fresh snow and is enamored with our “bluebird” winter days. Perhaps most impressively, she has adopted the cold in practical ways. At the top of this list is using our back deck as what she calls her “outside refrigerator.”
Here in the haunches of our far-north
winter, you will regularly find Desiree stepping outside with pots, pans, and
occasionally plasticware filled with perishable foods for short-term storage in
her outdoor refrigerator. Typically, such items are placed on a brick ledge at
the base of the arches supporting the portico at our back door. On occasion,
drinks and items that need to be cooled quickly will be stuffed into a
snowbank.
Very practical, this stuff.
I am sharing a photograph of a pot of
soup that has been stored in the outside refrigerator for a few days.
—Mitchell Hegman
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