You all remember Curt Schilling, right? Former major leaguer…bloody sock’d his way into being the 2004 World Series hero…was an avid gamer, and so he parlayed that blind love into defrauding an entire state and running his gaming company into…
Where Is My Rink Water Going?
People who have pools are used to adding several inches of water every few weeks to keep the pool water level constant. In the peak of summer, you can lose over 1/4″ of water to evaporation daily. Does the same…
Now Taking Applications For Site Contributors!
I started this site in the fall of 2008 to catalog my little backyard rink. Five years and several hundred thousand visitors later, it’s one of the most visit purist hockey sites on the web, home to backyard rink how-to’s…
Warrior Wants Pictures of YOUR Backyard Rink
Much of what we backyard rinkmasters do is hidden from the limelight. The 10pm floods, the Saturday afternoon sessions with the snowblower, the constant manicuring of ice pocked with branches and leaves and bumps — all hidden from view when…
Product Review: Yard Machines Snow Thrower
We got about three inches of nuisance snow last night, and as I breezed through the rink clean-up today, I thought I’d let you all in on a little backyard rink secret: I cleaned my 40×56 rink in about 20…
