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Lead testing part II

May 20, 2010

I have given each company I emailed  some time to respond and here are the results. The first person to email me back was Dave Lachance from lead inspector, he responded on the weekend with the following: “hello dave, thanks for the email and your inquiry. the kits would be great to test the solder [...]

Thanks again

April 22, 2010

Hello out there. Thanks Mike for that amazing post, I completely agree with everything. Thanks to everyone for helping us out as much as they did. Thanks to our Mom’s most definitely for helping out with keeping us fed, Mike and I would forget to eat without you. Also thanks to Bill Smith for saving [...]

Season #1 Is In The Books

April 16, 2010

Well we finished up on April 06, the official end of the season for Sap To Syrup’s inaugural year. What a blast. This syrupin isn’t so bad. It went by so fast we didn’t have time to go visit any of the other producers and see how things were in other bushes. But I did talk with [...]

lets get selling

August 19, 2009

So I’m all ready to start selling my maple syrup through Craig’s list. I must say that I am pretty happy about how it’s going so far. I can’t decide whether I should sell it all directly myself or whether I should find a health food store or grocery store in the area that would [...]

The start of something beautiful

August 12, 2009

Well it looks like I’m going to be expanding my maple syrup career. I was up north on St. Joseph Island and I got to talking with a very good friend of mine Mike Garside.

The Price of Maple Syrup

April 24, 2009

Since I have come back from N.O. I have been trying to figure out what the price of maple syrup is in Toronto. I only brought about 10L back with me and have been worried about making sure the price I charge is accurate. I figured I would go somewhere that is known for the [...]

Back to High speed

April 12, 2009

Ohh how I love high speed internet, I can just log in and post something in about 30-40 seconds rather than hours and hours. So I am back in Toronto and ready to head over to a buddies place for Easter Sunday supper. I had a bit of a problem at the airport as I [...]

New Url – New Site

November 14, 2008

Hello I have been working to create a new theme for this site and I think it looks pretty good. Word press is a very powerful and helpful tool for web developers. I want to put a bit more work into this site to see if I can keep it going all year. I found [...]

Epilog

April 28, 2008

Well I just got off the phone with good ol’ Billy Smith. Seems It was one of the worst years that he ever had in his bush as far a production was concerned. My plane left about 48 hours early and I missed the last big run. It was one of the best vacations that [...]