First skate was Dec. 3, last year was Dec. 7. Didn't make any upgrades this year, just wanted to get another season under my belt. I reused everything from last year, even the tarp. Next year will be bigger with boards on one end hopefully. We even got to skate on the pond this year which hasn't happened in some time, that's why I built the rink last year.

Ice was good until a few days ago when we got some wet snow mixed with rain. Now it's frozen rough, but the forcast for the next few days is going to be in the 40's so I'm not going to try and fix it now.