Stuff I eat
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 my wife laments the forest of maple trees in our backyard and how their roots and shade will affect our little garden plot. This year she decided to embrace them instead.
Week two of our inaugural maple syrup run is looking good. Too good. I see with both enthusiasm and alarm that the high for the next three days will be 10 degrees. That’s going to do great things for our sap production which seems to be a little more than …
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 . . .
