The Friday Night Kit

This is for the Friday that starts with a text that just says fire tonight?

By nine there are chairs in a ring and somebody's kid is asleep on a lap. By ten the phones have been face-down so long nobody remembers putting them there. By eleven someone tells a story you've known them thirty years without ever hearing.

You can't buy that night. You can only make it easy to happen, and most of the time it doesn't happen for stupid reasons. The good poker is still in the garage. Nobody can find the gloves. And nobody wants to be the guy fighting wet wood with a lighter for twenty minutes while seven people watch him do it.

So: four things that take away every excuse.

• Legacy Series Steel Campfire Poker, 30". Long enough to move a log without getting out of the chair. Solid steel, nothing to melt. Your kids will still be using this one.
• Bonfire Boss Fire Gloves. Somebody always ends up rebuilding the fire. These are so it can be you.
• Sure-Fire Starters, 24-pack. One match, even on wet November wood. The fire is going before anyone has finished their first beer.
• Fireside Chats Conversation Cards. For the nights the talk needs a nudge, or when you want to hear something you've somehow never heard from someone you've known half your life.

Cheaper than buying the four separately, and it arrives in one box, shipped free.

It's about to get cold, which means the fire is about to be the only place anybody wants to be.