Mother Nature giveth, Mother Nature taketh away. Such is the creed of the outdoor hockey player and backyard rinkbuilder. And, as Patrick Guerette learned last year, the pond hockey tournament director. After consecutive blizzards dropped record amounts of snow in…
Maine Pond Hockey Classic Gets Bigger and Better For 2016
Enter To Win One of Five Signed Copies Of Backyard Ice Rink: A Step-by-Step Guide
It’s been nearly six years since I bought this domain name and started writing about outdoor hockey, and along the way, your comments, emails, tweets, and Facebook comments have kept me going and helped me recognize the tremendous community we…
‘Backyard Ice Rink’ – Officially Published!
615 days. Dozens of proposal revisions. One contract offer. 14 months to write, and rewrite, and provide pictures, and to beg all of you for even more pictures. And then beg again. And now, on November 2 2015, one finished…
Sneak Peek of Our Upcoming Book (oh, and we still need your rink photos!)
It’s been a quiet year or so here on the blog after we announced we were writing a backyard rink book. Hopefully that’ll pay off soon enough. Just yesterday I received the first version of the book layout in PDF…
Get Your Rink Pictures Into Our Book!
Remember when we told you last fall that we were writing a backyard rink book? Well, the manuscript is due in the next couple of weeks, and now we need to start thinking about the layout and visuals. That means…