Maple syrup season in underway!  My daughter and my son took the day away from their schedules and we went to tapping trees. It was a great day, sun was shining, horses were hooked to the sled and there was alot of spice and sass!!  But, with some hill climbing and sloshing thru the snow, they settled pretty quickly.  By afternoon, the pair of horses were willing to walk calmly thru the woods.  It's not all about the horses because there is alot of tree tapping, hauling buckets from tree to tree, drilling for the taps and of course a few snow balls that appear from nowhere....

Rough count was 150 trees tapped!  That means there are about 50 or so to go.  We did all right with doing 150 today.  More help tomorrow so the last 50 should go pretty well.  Then we need to get the pan positioned tomorrow and maybe collect the first time on Thursday.

Full days but lots of laughs and good food and good times.  We haven't collected our first gallon of sap yet and already our season is a success.

So stay straight in the saddle 'till nex time!  Mike