I live in Ohio, and my six year-old son is becoming a hockey nut, and my daughter enjoys skating as well. My wife's father used to freeze over her backyard when she was a kid, and three years ago she thought it would be a good idea to build our own rink. Each year the rink has gotten bigger, and the...

Congrats! I'm a bit jealous....actually a lot jealous. We're off to a slow start in Ohio. We have our first layer of ice as of this morning...very gratifying.

With bad temps here in OH, this has happened to me twice. I've found that throwing buckets of warm water (about eight 5-gallon buckets for my 24x40) has melted the snow and given us a good surface to skate on. What about dragging the snow off with a hose? Lay the hose (no water) around one end of th...

So, I've just come in from throwing buckets of hot water across my backyard rink. All in the hopes of sneaking by this terrible winter weather, smoothing out the rough patches, and getting my kids on the ice for an hour or two tomorrow. This obsession with having a sheet of glass was born of marryin...

"Frankenboni" is classic. Keep us posted on it's performance.