Weather is not cooperating for a good maple syrup season . . . either too cold or too warm! Noteworthy Date Notes Tuesday February 21 Early thaw! Friday February 24 Snowstorm! Cold snap returns Friday March 2 After a cold week of nothing – a spring day Saturday March 3 …
Last year’s inaugural backyard sugar shack was a success so we’re ramping up production for season two. We received 10 new buckets from Aline’s folks as a Christmas present and we purchased five more of our own so we have 15 buckets ready to go this year . . . …
Every spring, summer and fall Aline laments the amount of shade we have in our backyard 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 …
Our friend Sheridan gave us the book Z is for Zamboni as a Christmas present. Hazel is now a big fan of the Zamboni, Bobby Hull and Orr, the referee and especially the penalty box when we reach the letter T and point out that breaking the rules results in someone sitting in the timeout box . . .
