Sunday March 18th

This was a beautiful, sunny day. Made you believe spring might actually come. It was a really nice day to walk through the woods, gathering was very fun today and relaxed. Enough to be worthwhile and not enough to be stressed or pressed for time. (Poor Adam had a tree branch jump up and get him!) Brad had this happen to him yesterday,...and has a significant gash on his leg to prove it!

YESTERDAY:  Bob, Jack (he came home this week!), and Brad did something we almost never do...they redrilled the original taps, as they are both old taps and frozen, they just tweaked them a couple of mm further in. Bob said ice returned on a few.

It is still cold though, the afternoon started out trying to get Wally unfrozen....Brad put a good hour into that project. In this pic, Brad has a heater on one side and Evan is using the torch from the other to warm up the mud so the track would move. Bob was jiggling it back & forth.

We enjoyed visits from the Parks, Sue and Duck (our joke teller today!) and Julie & Charlie and kids all came for a visit. Dorothy, Karen and Dale  and Susan R made her first outing....she was pleased to find the mud has dried significantly.

Faithfuls Katie and Adam, Muff, Brad, Nancy, Kelsey, Evan and Gerri gathered today. They found 390 gallons of sap.....strangely spaced some trees had none, some were overflowing. The re-tap did seem to work. Pastors Nicole and Jonathon came for a visit and tour. The camp was comfortable for visiting tonight.

Kelsey and Muff used the griddle for season appropriate reubens which we think turned out great.


Bob would like to publically apologize to Katie, he reports he thanked Adam and NOT Katie and she called him out on it. Everyone else wants to know why he thanked Adam and not anybody else. Katie started trouble.


Sap today: 390 plus 21 gallons
Total sap to date: 2,985 plus 170
Syrup off today: 9 gallons
Syrup off to date:48.5