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As a pre disclaimer, I do like my neighbor. He is a nice guy even if he is a city boy fudgie . Now onto the story.....
My wonderful neighbor insisted on working on the ice rink. Lets flood it before we shovel out all the snow and freeze up the bank. Then try to shovel out all the slush leaving nice big lines of chunks of slush to freeze really good to the ice tonight. Can't wait to get a metal dirt shovel out tomorrow and try to scrape all that off the ice surface..........Of course there is a ton of water in it , about 3 inches with a good 5 inches that did exactly what I told him it would do 2 days ago without freezing up the banks first. Flowed right out under the bank causing the snow all around it to turn to mush right up to the bank making it nice and soft so ya go through to the bottom of the lake when ya walk on it. OF course instead of drilling the water supply hole on the side of the rink facing the middle of the lake with depth, lets drill it on the bank side about 20 foot from it so its all slush and sand and pump that onto the ice surface. But wait,,,,,, there's more!!!!!!!!! lets drill the holes , 4 of them, inside the rink for a 2nd try to flood it before it is ready to be flooded ....... We are headed out ice fishing walking by it and he is proudly telling me what he did as I'm walking by it to go fishing and I just said, well ,,,, I'll fix it up the right way tomorrow and just walked away...... Some people really should stop just taking over someone else's project because their grandkids want to skate on a lake one weekend. Nothing like screwing up my and Danna's 8 hours of hard work in blowing wind and snow to make an ice rink for everyone to enjoy by next weekend. Now it won't be fixed , if I can even fix it , for at least 2 weeks.
My wonderful neighbor insisted on working on the ice rink. Lets flood it before we shovel out all the snow and freeze up the bank. Then try to shovel out all the slush leaving nice big lines of chunks of slush to freeze really good to the ice tonight. Can't wait to get a metal dirt shovel out tomorrow and try to scrape all that off the ice surface..........Of course there is a ton of water in it , about 3 inches with a good 5 inches that did exactly what I told him it would do 2 days ago without freezing up the banks first. Flowed right out under the bank causing the snow all around it to turn to mush right up to the bank making it nice and soft so ya go through to the bottom of the lake when ya walk on it. OF course instead of drilling the water supply hole on the side of the rink facing the middle of the lake with depth, lets drill it on the bank side about 20 foot from it so its all slush and sand and pump that onto the ice surface. But wait,,,,,, there's more!!!!!!!!! lets drill the holes , 4 of them, inside the rink for a 2nd try to flood it before it is ready to be flooded ....... We are headed out ice fishing walking by it and he is proudly telling me what he did as I'm walking by it to go fishing and I just said, well ,,,, I'll fix it up the right way tomorrow and just walked away...... Some people really should stop just taking over someone else's project because their grandkids want to skate on a lake one weekend. Nothing like screwing up my and Danna's 8 hours of hard work in blowing wind and snow to make an ice rink for everyone to enjoy by next weekend. Now it won't be fixed , if I can even fix it , for at least 2 weeks.