Shug here Happy new years everybody and uh i know you didn't see much of me over the holidays
and that was intentional on my part i i went to shoot videos here and there and every time i'd be
two or three minutes in and go i'm just not into it i feel like i'm really uh
making up one to do for nothing my daughter and her dog are home for the holidays and i
just really wanted to enjoy that time and i was in the mood to be away from the computer
i'm sitting out here in the middle of my ice rink yeah one of my projects i've been doing i
used to always keep ice rinks going when ariel was a little girl and uh i probably haven't done it in
15 years and be frank i have forgotten how much work it is so i flooded it twice down
here ran my hoses down from the house and i got pretty good ice i'll probably do one more
maybe two rounds of flooding it wow mom the olympics here's me i'm going to my weak side
cool
first thing i do on my ice rink is i come down and do a little zamboni work every day
meaning i get all the loose snow and the dust off the ice
my christmas gift to myself was this stovetop espresso maker and you can see they even
monogrammed it hoping you can see that with woo buddy it's made by a an engineer in the uk and he
is a uh a jet engine engineer it has all this kind of scientific looking
valves and cool stuff inside coils where it goes up these coils
then it goes in another chamber and gets to the perfect temperature for espresso
and it pushes up and you can just see it come right into the pot it's so cool it has this
little chimney here when you start to see that steam you know you're about there it's pretty
fantastic
so
that's what it's called the nine barista
hey man
look at you guys doing some pilates
clean the nicest out of my pk 360 grill got to be done we have cooked a lot of stuff on the
pk 360 this holiday and if you don't get your ashes out once in a while
you got to have room for those coals to light and have some air under there very important
that is a very satisfying job
i got me a grands 4 brooks splitting axe
small
beautiful i sharpened up this old hatchet i had for years really honed it to a sharp edge now
looks a lot better sort of laid in the yard for four or five years
sanded it down put some boiled linseed oil on the handle
now i'm getting ready to wax up the bottom a second coat of my new polk uh hitting it with some
max wax and this will give a really nice glide on the snow for upcoming trips this is my old
polk right here this is the jet sled junior and you can see i got the new winter camo large sled
gives me a bit more room got kind of a longer trip planned this winter what i want to do is
keep my load low rather than just you know taking a fork like this and filling it and keep piling it
up high because then you tend to get a lot of tips your center of gravity gets high this one's nice
a little bit heavier but just having that wax on there gives it really nice glide i've already put
one coat and just keep buffing it a little bit it's got a little bit more width on it as well
so uh now i got two pokes to pull and bringing it up with all my uh hookups here from skipholp.com
i'll show you those if you order these components from ski polk there's your pieces that just go
onto your sled any kind of sled you want and there's the hardware and the bolts that go in
i think that probably 25 bucks but it's been easy for me skiphole.com he's got a lot of components
and pulks this is one of my old ones and i got got me a new set and they're real nice and secure you
just drill yourself some holes you got a bottom plate to give it some stability and security
so i got these up front and that's where my harness hooks in uh you just put your harness
in like that and then you just slide your pin through your harness has that kind of a little
hookup it's got a swivel ball in there a little swivel link and that way it moves
moves real well as you're pulling everything helps out there you just put that in flip that through
and then clip that off and i always keep my clip to the inside as opposed to this way
just so something doesn't catch it and pull it off and then that wiggles out and that falls
in the snow so here's my harness right here i've got shoulder straps and my waist belt
i like the shoulder straps i don't always use them sometimes it does let them dangle
i used to find that pulling from my hips all day you know you can get a little bit sore
in those hip flexors particularly when you get a little bit older like me kids
woo buddy