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Ready for action

March 2, 2010

It is getting so close I can almost taste it, I can’t wait to get up north and start boiling. It turns out this year might start off sooner than I thought. Servers me right for trying to plan my work schedule around the season. Freshmaplesryup.com says that he was going to start boiling on [...]

Day 2 – And It rained!

April 3, 2009

Man I can’t believe this, I am online! I have been trying for the past 4h to connect to this sub-human dial up crap! after being on the phone with Bell Canada/India. I resorted to drinking beer, pushing reconnect and listening to the sound the modem makes, Just like the bad old days. Well it’s [...]

I HATE squirrls

April 9, 2008

Hey so no real pictures put together over the last few day. So I just give you a little synopsis. The last two days in the bush have been pretty good. I now know what type of animal the devil has come back as… a squirrel. I hate squirrels they are responsible for most of [...]

Video added

April 7, 2008

So it looks like it is not impossible to upload videos it just takes about 5 hours. So here is the video from the Tree burning.

First run and tree buring

April 6, 2008

Well yesterday was pretty full, first thing we did was get the truck stuck, not to bad though. We were also able to put in 140 taps. The real problem started when the electric motor for the vacuum system stopped working. We have to get that fixed tomorrow (it had to break over the weekend). [...]