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This is why I am not going to resume writing my #WIP right now: sugaring.
For those unfamiliar it is the act of making maple syrup. Which requires paying attention to the weather; at the right time drilling holes in the trees and tapping the, ah, spigots and hanging the buckets and emptying the buckets and boiling down the sap 40 gallons to make one gallon of syrup.
But February thinks it’s March so today I tapped 20 trees the earliest ever.
@gg how much syrup do you yield? Best to get that fancy-grade sap out first to make room for the good stuff...grade B.
@gg mmmm, maple syrup
@gg I no next to nothing about this, just from a few shows on the TV. Looks like you’ve tapped both buckets on the sunny side of the tree. Is that intentional?
@unclepj it is. You start on the South side and move west, then east, then north as it gets warmer. So I don’t tap all the trees at the start.
@gg So early! Vermont might be similar to Toronto in temp these days. I have green shoots in my side garden already. Spigots? Spiles. We had a row of maples we used to tap every spring. A great memory is drinking the sap out of the buckets, 'on the rocks', too. Good luck with your harvest!