what the fridge...

We finally received some much needed rain on Friday. This is awesome for Mother Earth, not so great for camping. We decided to stay home Friday night and headed out to Seba Beach on Saturday morning. It was really quiet at Shadybrook. 

I bought this little wool rain cloud on a recent trip to Coombs

We arrived to the site around 11:30 am and intended on heading over to the Farmer's Market but wait...what is this? Why is there a puddle of water on the floor of Charlotte? Why is the fridge flashing E0?

I opened the fridge - water. I opened the freezer - everything had melted and the water was dripping down the fridge. 

​NOOOOOOOO! We were just saying this week how great everything works in the trailer. Jinxed it.

I'm sure I have mentioned/complained about the poor internet coverage at Shadybrook. It's horrible. We have to go across the road to Seba Beach to get any service. So we did just that (and did a quick tour around the Farmer's Market.)

Once we had internet service, we did a search of what an E0 code on your fridge means  (on RV forums) and potential fixes. First of all, RV people seem to speak some other language. Here is one response in an RV forum A Refer E0 code is "No communication between display and power modules." per the manual. Have you checked connections at the 'eyebrow' board and the main board?

Umm..what?!? Refer? Eyebrow Board?

Anyhow, usually we like to fix things by turning them off and then turning them back on. It usually works. Not this time. James was jiggling wires, cleaning dusty fuses and disconnecting/reconnecting power and propane. Still E0.

Luckily we had lots of ice in the cooler and it's not very hot out so we kept all the food in the cooler.

​After all this, we needed a drink. The drink of the week was recommended by a friend. The cucumber basil vodka gimlet is very tasty! The recipe is here.

Sometime late afternoon, we decided to try turning the fridge off and on again and the error message disappeared and the fridge started cooling. Yes! We do know how to fix things. 

The weather was a mixed bag - glorious blue skies would suddenly change to dark grey and then wind and rain. This happened the entire time we were out at Seba. 

Fortunately we are still enamoured with our TV and DVD player so we finished watching season one of Game of Thrones. 

While cleaning up after breakfast I noticed water leaking under the sink. Noooo! Jinx #2. This one seemed to just be a loose pipe which I tightened and it should be ok now. Fingers crossed. 

We were exhausted after doing nothing Sunday morning so we needed a nap. I was half asleep when I heard the wind pick up and then hail. HAIL! Hail is enemy #1 for Airstream owners. High wind is enemy #2 if your Zip Dee awning is up. It was. We bolted outside and quickly got the awning down. Fortunately the hail was small so no damage to the trailer. Whew.

Oh, and Sunday morning we woke to this...

Now that we are back at home with internet we doing more research on how to fix the fridge. Or we will be bringing it in to be repaired.