Sunday, March 9, 2008

SUGARING

Out here in the good 'ole North East people take their sugaring seriously. There was a big two-day sugaring event at a state park nearby, we planned to go with Addi's friend Jordan and when we got there the event had been canceled because of the rain. But the "sugar shack" was open and they let us come in and watch how they turn sap into syrup in the "evaporator" and we even got to taste some syrup straight out of the spigot...YUM!


Addi and Randall are hard to see through the steam of the evaporator


The sap starts out clear and by the time it gets to this last stop before the spigot its dark syrup


Addi and Jordan keeping warm by the wood fuled evaporator


I thought this picture was so cute!
You can see the buckets on the trees catching the sap.
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