Duct Tape, Ranch Dressing, and Peanut Butter Cover A Multitude Of Sins

The refrigerator here at the Bayview Lodge, which smells of fish, is quite dysfunctional in that it only has one temperature setting: freezing. Though the dial reads 1 (less cool) to 9 (coolest), we find that it freezes everything you leave in it. This has been problematic for obvious reasons, but we've learned to simply take out the items we know we'll need the next day and put them in our cooler to thaw overnight. We often forget, and spend the first twenty minutes of the morning running hot water over, microwaving, and banging against the countertop whatever it was we wanted to drink or eat. We've had to patch up several plastic containers with duct tape as a result. Our rations are beginning to wane. No more cokes, yogurt, bag salad, tortilla chips, peanut M&Ms, Pringles, or Triscuits. We still have the ingredients for our staple, Black Beans & Rice, though we'll be eating it cheeseless soon (see above post regarding the cheese situation). The wonderful thing is that we have plenty of ranch dressing and crunchy peanut butter, and we all know that a smear of either on any otherwise undesirable snack item (such as mini-pretzels or saltines) has the transformation power of a miracle.