Last winter, some friends here in Minnesota got a pellet-burning stove for their deck, so they could socialize outdoors during cold weather in the pandemic. I tried to convince them instead to get a bunch of used exercise bikes, so we could all just keep ourselves warm while we hang out together on the deck, but to my disappointment they went for the stove.
If they had a regular wood stove and some saw-bikes, we could saw up the wood we would use. Hmm, maybe we could even set up one of the bikes to grind flour to make some tea cakes on the stove, to serve the other guests 
They would never go for it, lol, but a gal can dream, huh? 
