Good morning Vagabonds..I think the sap may have run a little yesterday afternoon. This morning the temp. is in the mid 20s.Warm day and cold nights are needed for a sustained sugaring season.Sugar on snow anybody? :-)).With those sweet thoughts I’ll leave you now..ttfn
Glad to hear you are a positive thinker, McPheeters! That really does help! Keep us posted this afternoon!
Mark………does the “running of the maples” have a big crowd of spectators? How do you know when to start looking? Is there a smell letting you know when to start collecting? Or is it just a weather related thing? (inquiring minds)
@ Montana Lady It’s weather related, when the temps get above freezing the tree roots start sending the sap up in to the tree trunks.Holes are bored in to the trees (not very deep), the sap runs up the inner bark, where the hole is the sap runs out of a spout and drips in to a bucket.The sap is collected and gets boiled down in to syrup.The sap is mostly water, it takes 40 to 50 gallons of sap to get 1 gallon of Maple Syrup..The local tribes were the first to get syrup from the trees, how they discovered this sweet treat is anybody’s guess..May the sweetness be with you..ttfn
woodworker318 over 9 years ago
Good morning Vagabonds.Nice day yesterday with a lot of the ice melting. More of it today.
davidf42 over 9 years ago
Morning, Village!
Still raining.
McPheeters – How ya doing?
Dkram over 9 years ago
Good morning Vagabonds..I think the sap may have run a little yesterday afternoon. This morning the temp. is in the mid 20s.Warm day and cold nights are needed for a sustained sugaring season.Sugar on snow anybody? :-)).With those sweet thoughts I’ll leave you now..ttfn
William Neal McPheeters over 9 years ago
I’m to have a follow-up exam today, but I think the prognoses is good … I’m just normally a very positive person.
MontanaLady over 9 years ago
Good Morning, Everyone,
Glad to hear you are a positive thinker, McPheeters! That really does help! Keep us posted this afternoon!
Mark………does the “running of the maples” have a big crowd of spectators? How do you know when to start looking? Is there a smell letting you know when to start collecting? Or is it just a weather related thing? (inquiring minds)
Dkram over 9 years ago
@ Montana Lady It’s weather related, when the temps get above freezing the tree roots start sending the sap up in to the tree trunks.Holes are bored in to the trees (not very deep), the sap runs up the inner bark, where the hole is the sap runs out of a spout and drips in to a bucket.The sap is collected and gets boiled down in to syrup.The sap is mostly water, it takes 40 to 50 gallons of sap to get 1 gallon of Maple Syrup..The local tribes were the first to get syrup from the trees, how they discovered this sweet treat is anybody’s guess..May the sweetness be with you..ttfn