When I was a kid, Dad made us skating rinks in the back yard. He shoveled the snow into a perimeter berm and then flooded the rink. In the morning, et voila ICE RINK. It was really cool. Lots of hockey played on those small rinks.
The nice thing is we didn’t have to worry about falling through the lawn underneath.
Now if only Dad had bought a Zamboni. ;>)
I tried that last night and it didn’t work?
My son had a very large backyard skating rink for his boys when they were younger.
The dog used to spot a squirrel and leap onto the rink to chase it———and go skidding across——very funny.
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A little tinkering with the lawn mower....
That is awesome, if I didn’t live in Miami I would do the same for my kids.
There was a thing you could buy to do that with hoses and water in your back yard. My little hockey player wanted us to do that when he saw it in a catalog. I had to explain to him that the pool of water would NOT simply freeze into ice overnight in Los Angeles.
My father just hosed down the backyard in Detroit. I skated every day after school.
Our neighbor in Detroit also used to flood his backyard for skating when I was a really little kid. Detroit was semi-safe back then. The dinosaurs not so much. :)