Every spring, summer and fall Aline laments the amount of shade we have and how poorly it affects the garden harvest. Well this year we’ve decided to embrace the trees and suck some of their life force out of them …. we are making maple syrup.
Aline’s dad came over on the weekend with some unused buckets, lids and spigots and we’ve tapped 10 trees. The upcoming week is supposed to be above zero so we’ll know soon enough how our backyard operation will fare.
Making monsters is Dr. Nutt’s specialty. Her best creations are the Yummy Mummy, the Boogie-Woogie Man, and her masterpiece, Dracula-la-la! who loves to sing Opera music. It’s music to Dr. Nutt’s ears, but the villagers don’t like the idea of singing vampires roaming around their town. When they storm her laboratory they are in for a pleasant surprise.
