ICE FISHING POLES…AND OTHER UNUSUAL V-DAY GIFTS
It’s that time of year when I start dropping all kinds of crazy hints to my Love Joy about romantic Valentine’s Day gift ideas. I’m really over boxes of chocolates (I mean, I’ll takeone if I have to, wink, wink), and champagne leaves me flat after the first glass. Saying that I really appreciate a well thought out and consciously planned gift, something unusual and very, very different usually gets his gears going. He’s good that way.
Why, just recently he came through with a most interesting thank you gift – an ice fishing pole. Now, what’s a fashionista living in the middle of New York City doing with an ice fishing pole? Probably nothing. Although, with the weather we’ve been having, I can almost see myself dolled up in my Liebeskind leather Chelsea boots with my leopard-print Traveler bag doubling as a tackle box, traipsing out to the iced-over Hudson River to score the Big One. Almost being the operative word.
I knew where he was coming from with this present, though. We’d just returned from the frigid northern Midwest – think something like Fargo – where they do things like that. And I will confess, it’s a not-so-subtle reminder of our loving trip together. I remember how we held mittens hiking through the woodsy surroundings, spotted a winter owl and tracked foxes in the snow before snuggling back to warmth in front of our B&B’s fireplace.
The fishing pole now sits in my office, an unusual token of his love for me, a realization that while we always may not be able to do the crazy things we want to on a daily basis, that dream is out there. And I know I will accept and love him for whatever kind of appreciation he wants to show me this Valentine’s Day. But I do hope it’s not a coordinating ice-fishing gift like crampons.
What’s the most unusual gift YOU have ever been gifted?
