How do you know you are old and boring? You come home from playing hockey and look forward to going out and flooding your rink with your Rink Rake.
I put my mp3 on, get out the hose, turn on the hot water, open the Bud Light, and make like a Zamboni. The part I like best is, when I am done spreading the thin layer of water on the ice, I like to sit on the bench I made and watch the water freeze. It's actually more fun than watching water boil. Try it some time. I like that it is dark (save for the 1200 combined watts of lights I have on), quiet, and takes me back to walking on the frozen lake at my parent's cottage in NH on New Year's eve when I was younger...much younger. Not that I want to relive those days; Just the opposite. But there is something about the night, the cold, and the ice that makes me think harder and clearer.
I put my mp3 on, get out the hose, turn on the hot water, open the Bud Light, and make like a Zamboni. The part I like best is, when I am done spreading the thin layer of water on the ice, I like to sit on the bench I made and watch the water freeze. It's actually more fun than watching water boil. Try it some time. I like that it is dark (save for the 1200 combined watts of lights I have on), quiet, and takes me back to walking on the frozen lake at my parent's cottage in NH on New Year's eve when I was younger...much younger. Not that I want to relive those days; Just the opposite. But there is something about the night, the cold, and the ice that makes me think harder and clearer.
1 comment:
Hey Scott, I know exactly what you’re saying. I tell my friends, “I have to get home to water my ice”, and they look at me as if I were nuts. Nothing like sitting under a full moon and looking at something you have built from the ground up. Fighting Mother-nature the way a sailor fights the ocean to get a skate-able surface, and then visualizing the excitement of your children as they skate. I get such solitude from that, something my ex-wife (who btw keeps looking for spirituality through Zen, Buddhism etc.) just didn’t get.
I check out your blog everyday. First I look at yahoo groups and then over to the Millen Four-um to see any now pictures you have posted.
Thank you sharing
Jerry
Chicago/Naperville, IL
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