What is a Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner?

It can be fake green.

So pretty, right?The plan was that after all the Christmas decorations were down, we would place a bunch of these throughout the yard for some fun Winter color..

The instructions seemed easy enough: Put colored water in some balloons, leave them outside to freeze, and voila!.So away we went, mixing up our colored water.The time came to pour the water into the balloons and they just wouldn’t stretch out and fill up.

When you make water balloons, you need the pressure of the water coming right out of the tap to make them grow.My taps don’t have colored water coming out of them.

How in the world did they do this???.

So we made some clear ice marbles and I thought we’d just paint them afterwards and it would be fine.This year we were a little more successful!.

They’ve only actually been able to use it once, but still!It’s so neat to have a real ice rink right on our property!.

I have secret dreams of one day having our whole extended family out here for a big hockey tournament on our rink.. Of course, I’ll be the one inside make the hot chocolate for everyone for afterwards, but wouldn’t that just be perfect?.Speaking of perfect… every once in awhile the creek freezes completely smoothly.