“So, why mountains stay cold on hot days is what we gotta get to here; bring me your swimming caps.”
An unattended bag of cooler ice – one too many bought and left in the freezer after the Ludlow family had gone for a drive through the Lofton County countryside – had given six-year-old Grayson Ludlow an idea for a unusually fierce heatwave in September.
“Mountains that stay cool have an ice cap,” he said as he put handfuls of ice into the swimming caps of his siblings and friends. “So, we all need an ice cap.”
“OK, but, OUTSIDE,” Mrs. Thalia Ludlow said as she chuckled at Grayson's ingenuity. “Ice caps on mountains are a result of the air being thin and cold up high – down here, all that ice is going to melt all over your heads, so, go water the grass.”
“This is actually great because we are helping the environment at the same time,” nine-year-old Milton Trent said about his ice cap, “but yeah; Gracie and Velma and I can't go indoors with these on either. I wanted Mom to let me put soap down on the floor so I could breakdance and clean the floors at the same time, but she said no.”
“The thing is, Grayson is super smart, but some of his best ideas will never be expanded the way they could be because ingenuity is being held down,” Milton's best friend and Grayson's nine-year-old brother George Ludlow said. “I thought it was a great idea, Milton, just so you know.”
