making maple syrup
On sunday I took my kids out to my dads and we made maple syrup. I remember doing this every year as a kid and it was pretty neat to see my own kid enjoying this process as much as I had.
My dad has about 6 trees tapped with a few buckets on each tree.
here is Sauce jr will a bucket, ready to collect the tree sap.
my dad (with the saucette on his back!) and my half-sister getting the buckets off of the trees:
a close up:
my dad has built a special outdoor wood stove to cook down the sap and turn it into syrup. This takes quite a few hours and the fire has to be kept hot the entire time, which means putting wood on the fire every 20 minutes. In this picture it is about 10 pm and we are getting ready to bring the almost-syrup into the house to finish it off on the stove.
the finished product!
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what a great experience. thanks, I will show the kids these pics tomorrow.
That's awesome!"Life may not be the party we hoped for but while we're here we might as well dance".- Maya Angelou
"Life may not be the party we hoped for but while we're here we might as well dance".- Maya Angelou
one more thing that i miss about being in ontario. and its not like its nice weather to go visit this time of year.
oh how i love maple syrup...and to be able to make it....i love dipping in in the snow......
we used to do this every winter at BD's parent's place, before his dad passed away and his mom sold their farm. i loved just sitting there, watching the sap bubble away. what a treat for sauce, jr, to make syrup with his grandfather.
that is the coolest thing ever.
Shit my dad is afraid to hold my kids I swear!! I couldn't even imagine him with a baby in arms let alone a baby in a carrier!
Incidentally this is the shit I dreamed about as a kid.. Family doing stuff together. Wow it just boggles the mind for me.
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that looks like a fabulous day.
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good gawd- i'm drooling- maple syrup is a vice of mine- anything maple flavoured actually. yuuuuuum!
(and your dad's hot.)
oh saucey! looks like so much fun. i was hanging out with someone who was at the sugar bush last weekend and could still smell the fire! i love that one of your dad and all the steam!
for sap runs hasn't it? DH was just lamenting that he can't find any of our taps. Yummo, homemade syrup, with that whiff of smokiness in it. Thanks for sharing.
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you think my dad is hot? hee hee, I'll let him know!
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