Yikes. I did it. Used a wooden Swedish sauna bucket that leaked like a sieve – I forgot to soak it in water beforehand and swell the seams. No matter. I had a couple of liters of ice, some in chunks. Standing in the hot sun with a screwdriver breaking it into smaller pieces was  challenge because all I could think about were those cold chips sliding down my back. Hub was the videographer. We had to change the position of my chair so that I wouldn’t have my back to the sun. Plus hornets have built a nest on our abandoned barbecue on the lower patio. They weren’t too happy that I was so close and I had no intention of getting stung…

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