I taught a continuing education class for electricians on Saturday. In doing so, I missed a meeting of the Aluminum Beer Can Melting Guild. A few minutes after my arrival at home in the late afternoon, a knock fell across my front door.
Upon answering the door, I
found Tad. “Sup?” I queried.
“We have a fire at the lake,” Tad
answered. “And I invented something
today. It’s called hard water tubing. I pull tubers on the ice behind the
four-wheeler. You need come down to the
lake and try it. It’s better than tubing
behind a boat.”
Driving home, I saw a lot of snowmelt
water on the surface of the lake ice. My
car registered an outside temperature of 53 degrees. “I might walk down in a bit.” I suggested.
“You need to go now,” Tad
insisted. “The weather is perfect. You need to go tubing. Papa Toad did it. You can do it. Do you have goulashes? You’re going to get wet.”
After a bit more back and
forth, Tad sped back down to the lake on the four-wheeler. A few minutes later, I walked down to join
everyone by the fire.
Once there, I agreed to take a
run at hard water tubing. Before my ride,
the Aluminum Beer Can Melting Guild provided me with insulated (protective)
bibs and a heavy coat—mostly to keep my street clothes comparatively dry.
“You want to watch a video someone
hard water tubing before you go?” someone asked me.
“Nope,” I might not go if I see
that.”
After pulling on my tubing-wear, I flopped onto
a tube. Tad and Stacie climbed onto the four-wheeler
and flung me out across the patchworks of ice and inch-deep puddles.
I will admit, hard water tubing
is riotously fun. Rather than trying to
explain what hard water tubing is like, I have posted a video Tad shared with me.
—Mitchell Hegman
NOTE: Hard water tubing is intriguing enough, a
couple random ice fishermen asked for a ride.
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