The other day, some friends came out to our place for a day of ice fishing. While our friends used an electric auger to drill holes in the ice (now nearly two-feet thick) and set rigs, Desiree and I started a fire in the freestanding cone fireplace at our lakeshore pavilion.
For
the next couple hours, Desiree and I fluttered back and forth between the
fishermen and the fire.
“My
feet are getting cold,” Desiree mentioned at some point when we found ourselves
back at the fire.
“Well,”
I said, “you can do what we did as kids when we had cold feet around a winter
fire. You can take off your shoes and
hold your feet near the fire to warm them.”
As I
told Desiree this, my eyes dropped across a scrap length of 2 x 6 wood in my
stack of firewood. “I have a better
idea,” I announced. “I am going to make
you a foot warmer. Take your shoes off.”
While
Desiree removed her boots. I grabbed the
length of 2 X 6 and placed it on the edge of the open fireplace to warm. After only a minute or two, the board
absorbed a lot of heat. I pulled the
board from near the fire the and laid it on the ground if front of
Desiree. “Put your feet on the
board. I just made you a warmer.”
Desiree’s
face brightened almost the moment she put her feet on the board. “This feels great! Super warm!”
I
repeated the board warming process two more times and then tried it myself.
The
board immediately warmed my feet to the core.
I am thinking I should file for a patent on my warming board. This is some good stuff!
Warming
the Board
Warming
a Foot
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