Dave's Maple Syrup Blog » trip coming to an end http://www.saptosyrup.com Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:07:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A sweet end http://www.saptosyrup.com/a-sweat-end http://www.saptosyrup.com/a-sweat-end#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:21:02 +0000 Dave http://www.davechapman.ca/syrup/?p=11 Well yesterday was amazing. I tapped about 21 trees but I spend most of the day fixing things that needed to be fixed. Bill told me that he had a pellet gun so we took it to the bush.., and if we were target practicing with the pellet gun and a squirrel happens to walk in front of it., we can’t be held responsible for the fact that the little devil spawn got in the way. We went through about 800L of sap that day. I forgot how much work it really is to be running around like that, checking levels, checking temperature. I was able to have those amazing drinks too. Every time I had a one I was happy I was not drinking an Ottawa, stupid pancake, non alcoholic, over priced, what the shit! Beaver Tails,I felt great.

Today there was a bit of a blizzard, we went out there but, ya know, there was nothing really to do. We did not fire up and make any syrup, we kinda fixed little things and drank a few cold beaver tails. I really like making syrup for some strange reason. It seems to me there is enough to learn here that I could study forever. I don’t think Bill would care if he turned a profit or not. I also think the bug has got me on this one.

I will be back next year!

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