I've tapped our two maple trees and two in my son's yard next door. After three days, I have three and a half pints of perfect maple syrup. It's a lot of work, but soooo worth it. It brings back memories of the sugar bush down the road when I was a child. My job was to run ahead of the sledge with the sap tank and scoop the dead mice out of the buckets. Sometimes they hadn't drown and I would go home with a pocket full of wet live mice. I'm surprised mother ever let me out of the house.
I hope we have a long sap run, but with the weather as warm as it is, it may be over quickly. Last year, I got a total of 16 pints. Boy, it's a toss up, early spring or maple syrup....Well, I can always buy syrup. I can't buy spring.
Maple syrup time.
You must have had a very patient mom - hah!!! Growing up (and still living) in the 'burbs, the only time I have tapped maple trees was with the Scouts. For anyone in the Huron-Clinton Metropark areas, most of the Metroparks are having maple sugaring events now and it is a nice opportunity to tap trees and learn the maple syrup process. It is also a great time to walk around outside and to (as Dad used to say), blow the winter stink off!
What a visual! Sticky mice in your pocket. LOL
This weather is kind of scary. We are getting used to it. Is winter done????
my heart says yes my mind say don't beleave it !! I hope so but I'v been fooled be fore ;0( I soo want to go out and play in the flower beds I have things that are comming up and want to be uncovered LOL guess I'll wait an other week to see after St. Pattys day
Gloria