The Home Opener – 2009 Edition
We had the earliest ever home opener of the Marchand Memorial Arena this past weekend, one week after rink construction began. Thanks are due to Mother Nature and brisk seven day period of superb temperatures (well superb for ice making). Hopefully we won’t get a warm spell in February like we did last year. A nightly tune-up with the rink rake and we’ll be in business for a while.
Fence and lights are up, and I added the final touch tonight – a Noma remote control for the lights (from Canadian Tire) . Darlene just shakes her head at me now.
The kids have used the rink every day since it’s been open, and we’ll probably have the first skating party this weekend. Unfortunately I have pretty much tripled the amount of shoveling I have to do every time it snows….