We have still been busy in the sugar shack. I thought I should take a little break while my guys are gathering to quickly post on here again! Looks like we are going to be putting in another late night tonight. The other night we boiled till 11pm so that my hubby could take off with the 2 oldest children to go to a vet meeting.
I figured I should start today by kind of explaining when to tap the trees and stuff like that!! What is takes for the sap to run is warm days (above freezing) and cold nights (below freezing). So, we kind of watch the weather forecast and when we see it looks like it is going to be warm we start to tap. The sap will continue to run as long as the weather is in our favor (nice days and cold nights). When the trees start to bud and split we are all through with the season. At that point the sap will taste bitter instead of being sweet. When we start out each year tapping the sugar content in the sap is 2 1/2 to 3 percent sugar and as the season progresses it drops down to around 1. Which means we have to boil the sap a lot longer to get the right sugar content in our finished syrup.
Here are a few new pictures of us out boiling on Wednesday. Hope you are enjoy this spring weather~
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| Drawing off more finished syrup |
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| hanging out playing cards with Bumpa |
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| It is always fun having friends come over!! |
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| Elli loves this nice weather to be able to play outside while we boil!! |
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| even Brownie is enjoying the warm weather! |
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| We are all loving the warmer weather, but I think the ducks are the only ones enjoying all of the water puddles~ |
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