Zar and the Ice Box......

For those of you following Mookie's trials and tribulations, he is hiding under that big chair in here and groaning every once in a while to let me know he is there. He seems better than yesterday.....Only 6 to 9 more days to go.....

Now onto more important matters. As you know, the Clockwork Cottage is slowly being built from the ground up. I am doing pretty good for a six year old, but Zar sidetracks me sometimes with his latest ideas for inventions. After all, the stuff inside has to be built at the same time.

Today it was turning an ice box into an electric thing called an Extreme Chiller.......I think he needs to work on the name, but the idea seems good. Now if he can only get it to work.

With my help to carry things and glue cogs where he pointed, he went to work. I also had to drill holes because he can't manage lifting the drill.

We started out by finding an old Chrysnbon Ice Box. I had one in the "waiting room". That's the room in the family room bookcase where I put things that don't really belong anywhere, but generally in a kitchen.

Then I dragged out my tray that contains all of the cogs, wheels and miscellaneous drubs and drabs of leftovers. I think it is about time to clean that out. I even found a fimo hand that I overcooked in there! When I start finding detached body parts, I think that it is time to sort.

Anyway, we found the before mentioned cogs and wheels, a strange little spring, the back of a watch, the top of a dimensional paint bottle, some findings and a mini light bulb. Then I went and got the copper tubing that he needed for the water source to the ice.

Zar is getting very good at this new fangled electrical stuff. I don't understand it at all. I just know that the light goes on when you flip a switch.

He decided that a steam powered Extreme Chiller wouldn't be very practical, so he opted for the electrical kind. He went to work and I had very little to do but watch. He explained his theory. In his world, I am sure that it works. He has created a source of water to make the ice with the copper tubing and, in theory, he is running an electrical current straight into the ice. Don't ask me how he is doing this without getting shocked. As I said, it works in his world. He explained that the continuous feed of water directly into the ice block will keep freezing indefinitely. If he says so........It's kind of hard to see(poke the picture), but the copper tubing and the electrical wire actually go through the sides of the ice box and into the ice!

Of course Tessie had to have a look at it. Her only comment was "Good going Balthazar! Now I will always have ice for my brew!" I don't think that she was all that impressed that it could keep food from spoiling. She knows what is really important!

See you tomorrow.