Spent the entirety of the day making pies. It was supposed to be this fast deal with out convection oven at the depot. It was not a fast deal. I guess the only fast thing about it was that I could bake 16 at a time. That was nice. The rest of the process was an absolute disaster. I am not very familiar with that oven but I dare say the thermostat on it is not calibrated. I was struggling to get the pie to do anything at the 350 degree setting that was suggested for the convection. It ended up taking me roughly 10 hours to make 48 pies. That is only three batches. I don't call that very good but by some miracle I managed to get it done and the pies were in somewhat OK condition when all was said and done. Nothing burned, nothing wasted. When I was on my way home I stopped in at the Brick to see how things were going with closing. Makayla had baked 24 pies for me there and I found they needed to be wrapped so I started doing that with the help of Christa.
Around 9 Melissa tells me that the fan in the walk in hasn't been running since the power outage on Saturday evening. That is not a good thing. The condensing unit was still running and everything was iced up. That block of ice was the only thing keeping that little walk in cold. We were quite fortunate that this was the case. I made a call and left a message for my friend Morgan. He called me back a little later and said he was just leaving somewhere and would be over. He confirmed that it was dead. We looked for a solution to the problem. I thought about the old walk in refrigerator downstairs that has a couple of fan motors that both work. I thought we would be able to make that work and at first Morgan thought we might as well. Then he saw them, not a match. The situation was getting desperate.
With the motor pulled Morgan tried to put some lubricant on it and get it spinning. It would spin but it was a bit rough. We tried to cool it down for a bit in the freezer in hopes that once it would cool the metal would contract a bit. We hooked it up and though it tried to go it just wouldn't. I thought my night was going to be quite long. As I would have to pull coolers and put things on ice. I would have to rearrange the other refrigerators in the building and try to get everything into refrigerated space. Morgan went to look on the shelf at work to see if there was anything that could be used. He wasn't really hopeful but said he would go and look. By some small miracle he found a fan motor that was very similar in specifications. It had a slightly different design but he thought it might work. He came back and put it in. I turned the breaker back on and didn't hear anything. I went to the walk in and found the new motor turning. I was so relieved and so very grateful for a good friend who was willing to come at a moments notice to give me some much needed help.
I am tired, I didn't get any of my school work done today or a menu project that I need to complete. The things that were most pressing did get done and for that I am grateful. I was sad not to be at home tonight with the fam. I called Nat and told her the situation and asked her to lead scripture and prayer with the boys. I got home a few minutes ago and all is quiet. I assume she took care of that and all are resting well. I am ready to do the same.
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