Joe snapped this incriminating picture of Pearl and I resting in the sun as he left to go collect sap. Really, though, I was working! What’s a girl to do while she’s waiting for the maple syrup to heat up for bottling? Yeah, I’m earning my keep…this maple stuff is exhausting work, you know!
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Really, I’m working!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Flat Stanley Visits from Texas
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we had a very special (and thin) visitor at the Hardwick Sugar Shack. Mr. Flat Stanley came all the way from Texas to see sap flow out of the sugar maple trees. God may bless Texas, as the song goes, but there’s not a maple tree in sight in the grand state. That’s why Mr. [...]
New land for the sugar bush
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In January, Joe and I bought some land near Moose Brook in Hardwick. It’s a beautiful spot…the river flows through the property, there’s great hiking, and of course there’s lots of sugar maple trees!
The video below shows Joe and I last weekend at the new land, before our first open house of the 2009 season. I [...]