Sandy ... that sounds like a plan ...
>>>do you even have a windshield ice scraper
Yup, I do have one ...
, but I've never had to use it because my car is always parked in the garage.
I've always had a frost-free freezer until this one and never had to worry about it. But when my old freezer died, Bill told me that frost-free freezers can't be repaired because the coils are in the walls of the freezer.
I figured this was a good time of year to do it because the day temps are down into the 30s and I could just put most of the food on the table on the patio while I worked.
I'll do the hair dryer thingy tomorrow. Thanks for the tip.