Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Birds in the Apparatus

We recently purchased a new refrigerator to replace one originally bought somewhere between twenty and thirty years ago. The new refrigerator is a different sort of beast. It’s big, reflective, and the freezer is on the bottom rather than on the top.

Most remarkable is how quietly the new refrigerator operates. When our old refrigerator fell into a cooling cycle, it ticked and gurgled loudly enough to be heard from nearly anywhere in the house. The new appliance can be heard only if you are nearby—and even then, the cycle begins with what sounds like a pair of songbirds lightly fluttering down inside the appliance.

That’s progress right there.

Our New Refrigerator

—Mitchell Hegman

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