It was probably somewhere around 8pm, after the first of two intra-city hockey games at the JFK Coliseum. I was clad in my then-awesome varsity jacket, the giant “W” crest and stark-white pleather sleeves overstating my confidence. One of my good…
Why create a Backyard Rink?
With a frantic mid-December push, the rink is built, lined, and filled. All I can do now is furiously refresh weather.com and hope the temps stay down. The downtime (if you can call it that) allowed me some time to…
The most exciting resurface EVER?
Today started out pretty tame. RJ and Meg went down for a nap, and I set out to liquify the thin layer of snow left over from last night’s cleaning. I opened up the valve on the homeboni full-bore and…
All you can do is laugh (after you’re done swearing)
Not only was I spot on about yesterday’s storm…that the forecast of 3-6″ would be underestimated (we got 10″ throughout the day)…but we even got a random 4″ overnight LAST night! So the hour I spent last night cleaning up…
A great family skate
I knew going into this rinkbuilding endeavor that the hard work would be plenty. And as of right now, the maintenance is beating the skating by a very lopsided score. But I also knew that there would be moments spent…
