I've decided that I should get back to blogging in the new year. It's not like things have slowed down any in our little world. It just seemed I had too much on my plate to sit down and form a single cohesive thought-Hell , I spent months not even being able to complete a simple sentence! Okay, so I've actually spent years that way but this was the first time anyone (everyone)mentioned it. So now that Christmas is over and New Years is over and "winter"break is almost over I'm going to again begin regaling you with the inane, insane and just plain ridiculous. We've had a number of interesting doings this fall/winter in the yard. You would think that after the dirtbike debaucle I might've learned my lesson (or at least made some money renting out the yard for mud wrestling) but alas, no. When the weather got cold EC( who's on medical leave from school)announced that he had brilliant project in mind. As always I'm very wary of the impact of his ideas on both my wallet and the yard. Signifigant impact on both was no exception this time either. I know -what is it?Did I let him do it? If so ,WHY!!? Okay I give! His idea was to build an ice rink in the backyard! Yes boys and girls, a real ice rink -to play hockey on. Despite the fact that I'm the only one in the house that can skate I said "yes"-no I'm not sure why but I'm guessing that it has to do with the fact that I always wanted one as a kid. Sometimes when I was a kid the front yard flooded and then froze and I would skate on that-kinda desperate but if you have lemons....
Now this is not some kiddy pool filled with ice cubes mind you-this is a 18ft x 36ft ice rink. It involves 4 x 8's, rebar and miles of plastic liner. The slope in the yard(which was way more we thought) was enough to require an amount of wood equal to the concrete used in the Hoover Dam. After multiple trips to Depot and Lowes (try that with 4 teenage boys and no traquilizer darts) and enough cash to fund a third world country's economy for a year, we were ready! Then the trouble began. I wont bore you with the nitty gritty details but suffice it to say that once was not enough. Several different methods were employed to try and build the sides of the rink-then Dad came home and advised them to change their plan again! That was just Day 1. Evenually on December 20th we found ourselves siphoning water out our stream to fill the frame. It was very exciting!!! Especially to my husband who was thrilled that we were using FREE water! We waited impatiently for it freeze-which it did. Then we went on a short vacation.
When we came home it was empty (at least we didn't wash a small village in the foothills away in the disaster) What a disappointment. After several days work and a liner replacement the rink is again full! And almost completely frozen-one more day we hope! I will keep you up to date but at the risk of jinxing ourselves I think we have a winner!
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