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It's a huge amount of work, wading through sometimes, hip deep snow, snowshoeing or skiing around the orchard, tapping trees and hooking up sap lines in the freezing cold. Then, there are times when the sap is running, you can't go to sleep for days, because, some one has to boil and pour off the finished product, and keep the fire going. It's easy to lose track of time, and forget what planet you're on when you're involved in sugaring. There's so much steam n the sugar house you can't see your hand in front of your face. The steam can make a local weather pattern around some sugar houses and it can snow, only where you are so you can't see much out the window either. It's tiring but, great fun. You come home after a session, having eaten sausage with syrup, eggs and syrup, ice cream and syrup, pancakes and syrup, sugar on snow and sometimes, it's so good, you drink the fresh syrup right from the tap in a glass before you bottle it! |
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