Sugar Time.

3-26-17 VERMONT: Today is warmer, in the forties, mostly sunny and with little wind. I did a walk with the pooches around the pasture. The snow is crusty enough so I didn’t need snow shoes. The cover in some places is only a few inches thick.

Our neighbors, Steve and Diana, have sap buckets on every sugar maple in the pasture and along the road. You need a lot of sap, 40 gallons, to make one gallon of syrup. They should be boiling in the sugar shack soon.


If Gus, on the right, looks a little funny, he has three tennis balls in his mouth. Could you do that?

Sap buckets and....

Muddy road mean spring must be on the way.