I remembered my dad buying hand warmers for her gloves when she was working outside while in the winter.
Dad was an Heating and Air Conditioning dealer, and she often helped install current Heating and Air Conditioning system while in early Spring when it was still cold, or late fall when it was getting cold! She called the hand warmers her portable heaters.
Dad liked that little portable heaters, and she started putting them inside my gloves when I was outside playing. I hated wearing those gloves, and I would take the hand warmers out and give them to someone else to use. The portable furnaces would hot my hands and gloves so well that I could not make a snowball. I was the only 1 who was getting bombarded with snowballs because mine melted before I could throw them. My friend Bobby liked the portable furnaces and she would stay hidden behind our barricade and let me throw all the snowballs. She was glad to have hot hands and stay safe. The only reason she came outside to play was because her Dad and dad made him. She would rather stay in her room and learn a book or play video games. I care about that too,, but I also enjoyed playing outside, but I didn’t want to make snowballs when those portable furnaces caused them to melt, until I realized the snow was turning to ice before they totally melted. I begged Dad for a minute pair of hand warmers. I gave 1 to Bobby and kept the other set so I could get the snow to pack more swiftly and get a tighter snowball.