I remember maybe 2 or 3 years growing up the ice was like it is now and looking back the past five years, we never had ice like this. I am glad the kids could all experience it because who knows if future years will have it like this and Jake will probably be off at college. All four boys wanted to be on the ice as much as possible and was pretty awesome because outside of biking, hard to have everyone doing the same thing for such a long period of time. Today we skated when we woke up, went to church and enjoyed a pot luck (we didn't know it was pot luck today. Talked to some other churchgoers and they said the same thing. I think the A team church ladies didn't want a ton of food so they kept it smaller and handled it themselves. Nicely done), got home and skated, short break and skated until it was dark. Oh, a couple farmers at church said two more weeks until snow, they still have corn and beans standing so have to get that pulled in and then will snow. I guess I can live with that with the ice thing going good. Maybe 10 days would be more reasonable.
Doing some long passes with Jake.
After about 5 hours of skate time this weekend, Jens has really improved.
Dogs having a bit of trouble with the smooth surface. Lucky has the most experience and does the best.
We burned it up pretty good in front of the net.
Jon definitely enjoyed opening things up on the open space. I wanted to race with Jake and Jon but they chickened out on me.
Happy Jack at sunset.
Jon going goalie, letting Jake wind it up.
I was too wiped out from traveling to flood the rink when I should so instead thought I would prepare the surface a bit better, dropping the decking down to 1 1/4 inches, mowing in single digits.
Stopping by Shingobee on our way to Duluth. Crazy fun place to ski. The narrow trails on those big hills are a rush. Have skied on a lot of trail systems and nothing compares to shingobee and the sliding hill is really crazy. Lots of bones broken on that hill. Good place to do hill workouts.
On the shore of Leech Lake. Most interesting ice on the edge and a big pile up of slush that froze. Standing on the edge made you feel like you were in the artic or something. Probably not.
Lots of games have the chuck a puck thing. Have never seen chuck a puck at the cheerleaders like they do at the UMD games. Those cheerleaders have some guts standing on the circle, especially in the UND zone. I would be flinching too.
Never seen a game in the DECC before. Nice rink to watch games. UMD looked good. The goalie was definitely a risk taker and pretty nifty with the stick.
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