29. March 2016

9:45 pm Tuesday Great night of boiling til 1 am for Scott, Christopher and daughter #2, Kalina, home from Canmore for a visit. Warm temperatures overnight meant more sap; it filled one tank before things got cold around noon and froze up. Tomorrow Scott and Christopher will be back at it. Temperatures look pretty warm these next few days. Should bring more sap, but how long will it run? We'll see! Still making great tasting early mid season syrup. Meanwhile...Samara's still recuperating. Went...

28. March 2016

7:10 pm Monday Finally collected enough sap to boil! Christopher and Scott are fired up and ready to go for a few hours. Tomorrow's supposed to be messy. We'll see how long they have to go into the night!

17. March 2016

9:35 am Scott reports that we have enough sap to boil tomorrow, Friday. We'll fire up mid day with Bob Williams back firing. Yay! Bob is the original owner of the farm, the one we apprenticed with back in 1994. He's freshly back from a cycling trip through Mexico with his partner, Glenda. Look forward to boiling with them at some point every year. Won't be a long boil. The temperatures need to get a lot warmer for us to get sap. Saturday we have CBC coming here for the day...including Daniel...

02. March 2016

12:00 noon Scott's heading down to the sugar camp shortly to start boiling. Christopher Howse is firing for him today - yay! Turns out that the three guys Scott's relying on for firing this spring ALL have pregnant partners who are expecting to deliver sometime within the next 4 to 6 weeks. This will certainly be a productive spring! Maybe they'll all come on the "sugar moon"... Scott's starting with a full tank of sap and then it's supposed to get pretty warm and rainy this afternoon so...

11. April 2015

9:15 am Finally, we'll be firing up today! The sap ran enough over the last 12 hours that we can boil and hopefully make some syrup. We'll see what else we can collect over the weekend. Check in again tonight! And come on up for some steam, sap and maple yumminess.