Harvesting some ice is a great way to start the day. A chip off the old block of crystal clear ice—none of that cloudy rubbish from your automatic ice maker—with a beautiful purpose-built tool harkens back to days before household refrigeration was commonplace. This was not all that long ago. In the 1930s only 8% of American homes had a refrigerator, and along with it one of their first power cords to manage (foreshadowing tales of the great lengths La Voliera goes through to manage cords). What a luxury! Homes during this early age of electricity that were lucky enough were wired for a single light bulb in the kitchen—who would ever need more than that? For everyone else, ice blocks continued to be delivered to their doors to supply ice chests. By the end of the 1950s nearly every American home had refrigeration, plus multiple extension cords plugged into one another and draped across a wet kitchen floor, and a fuse box full of pennies. We are all really lucky to be here today.