Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Sauk Rapids 3 - Ice Rockets 1


My girlfriend Laura had her son out skating on the rink last week while I was sleeping off a night shift.


I hooked up the hose to the kitchen sink and did 3 full floods of the rink with hot water. I had a couple of areas that were large raised patches which I spent some more time on with the hot water to try and level it out... It worked pretty good.

While I was gone to my daughters hockey tournament in Moose Lake, MN (they came in 2nd out of 8 teams), it rained a bit and helped to further level out the rink.... but unfortunately its been way above normal, temperature wise, and the rink is soft...

Here's wishing for cold weather!

The First Skate

My girlfriend Laura had her son out skating on the rink last week while I was sleeping off a night shift.


I hooked up the hose to the kitchen sink and did 3 full floods of the rink with hot water. I had a couple of areas that were large raised patches which I spent some more time on with the hot water to try and level it out... It worked pretty good.

While I was gone to my daughters hockey tournament in Moose Lake, MN (they came in 2nd out of 8 teams), it rained a bit and helped to further level out the rink.... but unfortunately its been way above normal, temperature wise, and the rink is soft...

Here's wishing for cold weather!