ENDING THE ICE AGE INSIDE MY FRIDGE

My fridge is a pretty old machine. Can't tell you when exactly the thing left the store and entered my house but it feels like it happened decades or even centuries ago. It's like it has always been there, stuck in time or in some kind of parallel dimension that merges seamlessly with the rest of the fairly normal world around it. The fridge itself looks quite ordinary, with nothing special to see on the outside or inside, but is weird and crazy when it comes to the microclimate produced in its interior.

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In summer, when the days here are long and at times almost unbearably hot, my fridge goes through its ice age. In this opening photograph, you can see three glass jars trapped in the ice like mammoths from thirty thousand years ago.

Today I decided to melt that frozen situation and do a bit of ordinary cleaning in the kitchen as well. These are the weekend activities I'm presenting in this post.

As always on these kinds of occasions, when there is action in the kitchen, my cats are active too. Some are ready to jump in the fridge, a mysterious place they rarely have the opportunity to explore ...

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... others supervise the process from some elevated point with a great view of everything.

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The top of the living room's display cabinet is such a place, one of their favorite viewpoints.

The cat shown in this photograph just jumped from the cabinet down to the table.

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The first, and more or less only, thing to do when deciding to end the reign of ice inside the fridge is to turn the machine off.

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The summer temperature will do the rest very quickly.

Here you can see a small piece of lettuce appearing as the indoor glacier is turning into liquid.

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At some point the block of ice loses its grip, it gets detached from the plastic surface, and then ...

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... it gets thrown through the kitchen window.

I enjoy seeing the block of ice getting shattered on the lawn. It's a refreshing moment. I got rid of the ice early in the morning. As you can see in this and the previous photograph, the sun was still very low above the horizon, and the atmosphere wasn't as bright and sunny as it would be half an hour later, but the weather was already very warm.

With the ice out of the picture, it was time to clean the fridge's interior.

When the work in the kitchen was done, I took a break and watched some Italian YouTubers for an hour or so. I mean, I was more hearing than watching because I was working on some photographs for one of the future posts at the same time.

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Here you can see two of my cats guarding the entrance to the bathroom. After taking this photograph, it was time to do some cleaning right there, in the bathroom.

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While I was working ...

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... one of the cats was playing and fooling around.

This cat was photographed later in my room.

Here you can see another black cat. This one is sitting near the door and looking at the big world outside.

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I found the thing you see in this photograph while cleaning some drawers in the living room. It's a tool for repairing the fishing nets. I felt inspired to photograph it on the terrace.

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Later I took a walk to the grocery store and stopped for a moment to photograph this detail of one of the trees near the harbor.

AND THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR TODAY. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END