Tuesday February 20, 2018

Wind kicked up to the point it woke us up this morning! Wind will sometimes shut down the sap but today also brought the first really warm day and some sun at intervals so the taps were dripping. It rained here midday, only about 0.05 inches to add to our wet week.

Brad and James came home from Columbus arriving at 4 and grabbed friends Ben and Cody and gathered 100 gallons off of the short north. Bob arrived soon after and got a fire going. Adam texted at noon and Susan B was phoning in sap run updates to Bob on his way home from school from her assessment of her yard taps. Teamwork :)


Dale, Curt, Erin and Tinleigh, with the four above and later Katie and Adam collected the rest getting 444 gallons of sap (24 Adam brought from 178). The guys said there was a wide variety of sap tonight : some buckets had 1 inch and some were three quarters full. Adam admits he did a flop in the mud and Brad states he saw both Erin and James nearly eat dirt (he seemed disappointed about their near misses). Everything really slippery tonight.


 Karen stayed at the camp and visited with Bob while he picked up where we quit last night.


Gerri ran to Clyde to get pizza for supper and fuel up the truck. The cleaning crew so far has thrown away two significant things...Bob much calmer about it today though. Gerri has no idea where his metal spatula is...but a good idea what she would do with it if she had it.


The camp felt like a nice maple sauna tonight. The wind began to pick up again later this evening.


The boys went to the basketball game (and yes Dale we are all sorry you missed it). Bob remembered to add Curt to the group text after several days of forgetting that in a row!

The plan is for Mark S to come tomorrow to move some dirt and stone around the camp. Curt and Brad took the tank off of Wally so Mark could haul stone.....one of those guys better be around to put it back on...they took it off in about a 10th the time and with far less swearing than it went on for Bob, Gerri and Dale.

 

The only person the appropriate size for Wally. Enjoy the contrast.

Adam, Brad and Bob were kinda milling around, nobody with a clear job .........trying to fire, take syrup off and re-organize for the night. Astounding lack of focus in one room. Guessing that won't end well...and it will be Brad's fault.

T found a leaf, NOT a maple leaf but a close try! According to the quiz from Bob that followed, this is a Sycamore leaf.

 
Most unquotable quote of the day came from Bob: "Gee this has been a long week". Gerri reminded him...it is Tuesday.


Total Sap Today: 444 (1114 to date)
Twp Rd 178: 24 ( 51 to date)
Total Syrup Today: 6 gallon
Total Syrup To Date: 8.5