We’ve been greatly delayed by the enormous snowfall we’ve had this winter, but the maple sugaring season is finally underway!  For the longest time Dave couldn’t even get into the woods due to the depth of snow to tap trees.  The past few weeks has resulted in a whole lot of snow melt so slowly he’s been able to get into our different tapping locations and tap trees.  Today we collected a whole lotta sap!!  Tomorrow we’ll have a roaring fire in the evaporator and finally get to making the commodity of our family business.

While Dave was out collecting sap all over the countryside, John and I worked in the sugarhouse finishing some much needed organizing and cleaning.  Critters always manage to get into the sugarhouse during the winter and make nest of every scrap imaginable.  So now it is totally cleaned and reorganizing.  Of course, I did the organizing so poor Dave is going to be forever finding things in there.  John was great while I was busy.  He wondered around just outside the sugarhouse and played at poking leftover snowbanks with various tools he’d raid from inside.