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 . . .
| Noteworthy | |||||
| Date | Notes | ||||
| Monday March 14 | Sap starts to drip! | ||||
| Wednesday March 16 | Oh no! We burnt 8 litres of sap and the stockpot. Bummer. | ||||
| Friday March 18 | Flooding in our basement window well! Bailing every hour at minimum . . . | ||||
| Wednesday March 23 | Picked up new 12 quart stockpot to replace the one that was burned. $15 purchase | ||||
| Thursday March 31 | 66 litres of sap collected. We had to give some away. | ||||
| Wednesday April 6 | Whoa! Season ain’t over yet. Over Thursday and Friday as the temperatures soared and we hit new highs of sap collected – we ended up giving away over 200 litres of sap to Paul and Chris and Aline’s folks as we couldn’t keep up with the flow. | ||||
One dark night the Gruffalo’s child disobeys her father’s warnings and ventures out into the snow.
