Why is it, now that times are tough, EVERYTHING seems to be taking a shit all of a sudden? Lynn made a blueberry (sheet) cake thingy with some of the berries we picked last week, so I went out to the garage freezer to fetch a tub of vanilla ice cream. Ummm, ruh-roh George ... it was SOFT as P-hole's pecker at a whore house! I checked the temp setting and nothing has changed, but the thermometer read 20+ degrees. I turned the temp down to Max Cool and got it down to 10-degrees, but after a cool (60's) night last night, the freezer temp is back up to 17 this morning. It's in the 70's outside right now, but will be in the mid-80's later today. That thing is a 21 cu/ft freezer and is stuffed to the gills with (mostly) meat. Man-o-man, it's panic time! I jumped on-line to do a bit of shopping and have found MANY stores are sold out of the larger (non-commercial) freezers! I never thought of it before, but like toilet paper, I assume people are buying freezers and hoarding meat (since there are already shortages) and various frozen groceries. CRAP! This looks like another one of those pay through the nose items because it's an emergency and I have to take what I can get. Kind'a like trying to buy a portable generator when a hurricane is approaching. I don't think today is going to be much fun ... especially as we're trying hard to watch the ol' budget.