Most Saturdays from now through the start of the maple sugaring season (in about six weeks) are going to be filled with working in the woods getting ready.  This Saturday we hung three long sections of wire through the woods.  The tubing which will connect the tapped trees to our sap collection sights will hang from this wire so that it doesn’t sag.  The wire is pretty permanent so it was nice to get that almost completely finshed in one Saturday.

I did discover that I absolutely must acquire boots.  Wearing tennis shoes into the snowy woods for hours can cause feet to get wet and really cold.  Actually, we both need to acquire good functional boots for the sugaring season.  While at the JCPenny outlet the other day, I looked for functional boots, but all they had were those high heeled, non-sensical things some gals call boots.  Personally, I’d fall flat on my fanny if I ever tried wearing something like that in snow and/or ice.

Next Saturday we have to cut, load, unload and stack a bunch more firewood that is needed to heat the sap in the evaporator.  And we’ll probably hang some tubing from the wire lines we’ve hung.  I’m not a huge help during all this, but I can help some since I am still feeling pretty great.