so an idea happened upon us to make a hot tub out of, or in, the aluminum canoes that we have here at the cabin...
we, well ELI mostly, worked all morning and afternoon tending the fire, boiling water, and heating up rocks to rotate in and out of the canoes to keep the water warm until there was enough water in the canoes to submerge, or rather partially submerge, ourselves in.
nearly four hours of heating water and rocks until finally we hit the point of 'its good enough!' we grabbed the last two beers that we had been saving, stripped down and jumped into the two canoes now turned hot tubs. it was a short lived soak, but looking back on it now, the two of us sitting in the steaming canoes, facing a frozen lake as a fire cracked between us, while sipping on our last SASKATCHEWAN brewed beers, it is a priceless memory...