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We're in Business!
Sunday, 5 April 2009 7:09 A GMT-05
Last week I sent out an email to the entire company letting them know the syrup would soon be on sale, and immediately got a slew of emails back reserving quarts or pints of specific grades. One person wanted to buy a gallon off of us. No
Nearing the Finish Line
Saturday, 28 March 2009 7:57 A GMT-05
We were feeling pretty proud o fourselves; this year our sugar wood had been split early in the summer and was beautifully dry, we organized our time so that we could maximize the sap, we put in another line, bringing our total to more than 70 taps,
What it all boils down to
Saturday, 21 March 2009 7:13 A GMT-05
As I was leaving work on Thursday a co-worker, upon wishing me a good weekend, told me to "go make steam". At forty to one, steam is certainly the biggest product we make; too bad we can't bottle that.On the other hand, we did bot
Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble
Monday, 16 March 2009 7:06 A GMT-05
We fired the old girl up yesterday; finally! Gone are the days when we put in taps and expected gallons of sap to boil the next day. We've become experts at this and realize it takes at least a week, maybe two, to store up enough of the stu
On the March
Sunday, 8 March 2009 8:19 A GMT-05
Yesterday it was in the 50s, sunny, and a as a consequence, muddy and wet, with the two or three feet of snow still hunkered on the ground in the sugar bush no longer willing to support any weight at all. Snow shoes would perhaps be called for
Sugar in the blood
Thursday, 10 April 2008 5:39 A GMT-05
It's kind of like fly-fishing, in a way.Our hand pump broke. So our no-electricity-all-hand-powered operation (save for the propane used to finish the syrup and to light the house at night) became even more hand-powered; armed with a kitche
For the love of sap
Friday, 28 March 2008 12:36 P GMT-05
In anticipation of the weather, I took the week off. In past years, the last week in March has been the ideal sugaring time, mixing the below freezing nighttime temperatures with the above freezing daytime temperatures which bring out the
Short but Sweet
Monday, 2 April 2007 5:51 A GMT-05
There may be another week in the sugaring season but we quit this weekend, knowing things could get hairy at any moment and realizing, with a foresight not usually available to us, that we needed time to do other things, that is, we finally admit th
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Spring Snow
Monday, 26 March 2007 5:49 A GMT-05
The geese are back.Once the ice breaks up on the local ponds, they will fly fairly low over our house in the evenings, so low we can hear here the air coming off their wings. When they do this they are silent. But when they're high up
Idea Blizzards
Monday, 19 March 2007 6:02 A GMT-05
Despite the panic that yet another snow storm caused us here in the Granite State, (can you believe it?) the weekend was well represented. We welcomed the snow, even though the resulting colder temperatures froze all of the sap we'd collec
Piece of cake
Friday, 16 March 2007 6:02 A GMT-05
Technology isn't all it's cracked up to be. Take yesterday morning, for instance, when blog-city was down for at least two hours. It's nice when it's up, but when it's not up, well... there's no way I can do
Another Year, another Meeting
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 7:13 A GMT-05
It's Town Meeting Day here in NH!And once again the Town of Washington, with a voting population of probably around 900, will meet between the hours of 9am and 4pm, or until the day's busines
As Maple Leaves
Monday, 5 March 2007 7:08 A GMT-05
We're one of the few in the area that have actually tapped our trees, oddly enough, since the weather for the past two weeks has been perfect. But this week will plunge back down into the subfreezing range which will stop the flow for a while,
Sugar Snow
Thursday, 1 March 2007 6:50 A GMT-05
Oh my gosh! Can you believe it? A second snow storm is on its way to New England! Two whole storms! In winter! Somebody quick, declare a state of emergency!!
On Tuesday I got home with enough daylight left to string t
And the maple flows again
Monday, 26 February 2007 6:57 A GMT-05
The weekend's weather was glorious, despite the threat of a Midwestern storm racing towards the East Coast (said storm is supposed to dump all of an inch upon us before petering out entirely). Sunday topped up over 32 degrees and last night wen
Looking Ahead
Thursday, 22 February 2007 6:46 A GMT-05
I smell sugar in the air.
This morning it is an appropriate 13 degrees out, but yesterday's thermometer topped 34, reminding me that we need to gather our sugaring things together and start bleeding maple trees again. This year we have almos
Our Sap Overfloweth
Monday, 27 March 2006 6:53 A GMT-05
We've been at this maple syrup thing for almost three weeks now and this is the first weekend we've actually realized the potential of all 50 taps.
The trick is to turn all that sap into syrup before the sap turns to some moldy concoction unfit for
Desperation and drastic measures
Monday, 20 March 2006 12:00 A GMT-05
First, the promised freezing nights and above freezing days became one long below freezing week. At the beginning of the week the trees gave a half hearted effort; by the end of the week they'd stopped altogether, the lines freezing up and the
Agreeable Politics
Wednesday, 15 March 2006 6:42 A GMT-05
For the second year in a row, the Town of Washington, with a maximum voting population of 750 and a Town Meeting attendance of perhaps 100, voted in every single warrant article that was put before them with very little argument. At one p
Essential Elements
Monday, 13 March 2006 12:00 A GMT-05
Sap season takes over our brains in a major way, so much so that communication in understandable English becomes secondary to, say, the problem of how to get sap out of a 50 gallon barrel using only a wine siphon, or how to haul a ten gallon water co
Back to the Basics
Tuesday, 7 March 2006 6:58 A GMT-05
There's too much electricity in our lives.
Luckily for us, our ramshackle shooger howse is safely ensconced in the maple bush where electricity can't reach it, except perhaps in the way nature intended (by lightening bolt. But even that is fai
Practice makes Perfect
Monday, 6 March 2006 6:47 A GMT-05
It's sugaring season again.
Last year it was all new to us, from the evaporator pan to the gravity fed system which would get the sap to the evaporator pan. The only similiarity from the prior year was drilling holes, setting up stov
Hobby Horse
Tuesday, 14 February 2006 7:38 A GMT-05
The thing about some of our hobbies is that there are people out there trying to milk us for all we're worth. This weekend we drove through ravaged Alstead (ground zero of the great October flood) to get to the Evil Maple Store, which sells ite
Threatening Weather
Monday, 6 February 2006 7:33 A GMT-05
That's what it takes to make the winter be a winter and not a soggy eternal early spring; I threatened to take the motorcycle out of storage. Consequently, NOAA is predicting subfreezing temperatures all week. It might even get down into
Sweet Sugar in the Maple
Sunday, 30 October 2005 8:41 A GMT-05
It's that time of year again-- well really it's 5 months before that time of year -- but we've turned our attention once again to the possibility of extracting syrup from hapless maple trees. To that end, we're doing something we've never done befo
