Short But Sweet

As quickly as the sugaring season began it ended. It wasn't a great year for maple sap (thanks to The Winter That Wasn't) and we didn't do nearly as well as we had hoped, but we did come away with a decent amount of maple syrup all things considered (final tally: one quart jar -given to my parents- and six pint jars (kept for us). Here's to hoping for a much more normal winter next year, along with a much, much better sugaring season! xo

Yesterday And Today

Along with folding origami frogs, yesterday also found us doing our first sap boil of the season! The smell of maple in the air is a sure sign that spring is on the way (and what a truly sweet sign it is)! 

 Today was all abut welcoming the new month with some skiing, voting, (more sap boiling and lots and lots of playing outside!

 And of course, no March 1st would be complete if we didn't have daffodils on the table and wish all our Welsh friends a very lovely Saint David's Day! xo

Sugaring Season Begins!

When Dave and the girls arrived home from ski practice on Saturday we gathered our lovely new sugar supplies (thanks family for the lovely Christmas gift!) and tapped the trees! We decided that between the glorious weather, that day, seeing the sap buckets up when we were at Drumlin Farm earlier in the week and hearing that Natick Community Organic Farm was getting ready to tap their trees too that all signs were pointing to it "being time". And clearly it was, as we tapped the trees in the evening and by the time we were getting ready to leave for church the next morning we already had two very full buckets of sap! The third tap (which is new this year) is running much more slowly than the other two. Here's to hoping for a wonderful and bountiful sugar season! xo