I spent a few hours on Saturday setting up the backyard rink. After I spent many hours in the backyard last year, flooding and flooding and flooding and flooding and flooding and flooding and flooding, I decided to try Canadian Tire's Jiffy Rink. The rink is basically a big bladder, that you fill with water. You let it freeze and then pull the top off. Since the water sits in the bag, it is supposed to be completely level with just one fill. It took about 2 hours to fill, and the kids all helped as I smoothed out the wrinkles and tried to keep it even. Because our backyard has a real slant to it, the rink is about 6 inches thick at the one end, and 1/2 an inch at the other. It will take a while to freeze, but we shall see how it is as a rink.
