First things first, making the road to the sugar house. The snow was extremely heavy after the rain. Of course this will soon turn to mud, but that is our fifth season here, MUD. Every year we seem to put out more buckets. I even heard the word, "pipeline" in a conversion recently. The whole point of all this is to use metal and glass and not plastic for our little production. It just seems harder this year because of the snow I think. Some years we just walk right up to the trees. NO SNOW. That is the just the way life is, different every year up here. Guess that is why we like it here, too. The grand total will be 50 buckets this year. That seems like a nice doable number. We select different trees each year, too, so as to not wear them out, and to use the trees that produce the most sap. Boundary trees are great ones, easy to get to. There are some way down in our woods that will be more of a challenge. But they could be good producers. We will find out, and post the news right here!
First things first, making the road to the sugar house. The snow was extremely heavy after the rain. Of course this will soon turn to mud, but that is our fifth season here, MUD. Every year we seem to put out more buckets. I even heard the word, "pipeline" in a conversion recently. The whole point of all this is to use metal and glass and not plastic for our little production. It just seems harder this year because of the snow I think. Some years we just walk right up to the trees. NO SNOW. That is the just the way life is, different every year up here. Guess that is why we like it here, too. The grand total will be 50 buckets this year. That seems like a nice doable number. We select different trees each year, too, so as to not wear them out, and to use the trees that produce the most sap. Boundary trees are great ones, easy to get to. There are some way down in our woods that will be more of a challenge. But they could be good producers. We will find out, and post the news right here!
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