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Owing to circumstances beyond his control, nephew L didn't make it yesterday to help. We're heading into peak flow for the season this week/end, so I pitched in this morning and again this afternoon. We still don't have all the tapping done, between one thing and another, so it's quite important.
This morning was some of the triple-black-diamond parts of the west hill.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fitzw did the drilling and I tapped in the taps (so they have a good seal and don't pop out of the tree). Better this week than last week though, when there would have been 2-3 more feet of snow on the ground. In the afternoon we had nephew L and also some folks who want to learn about the sugaring process. They collected sap and fitzw and I headed back out to tap more, this time more to the north. Fortunately the slopes there were a bit more reasonable, with fewer tricky bits. So, 2 hours in the morning and 4 in the afternoon....
Uff.
Owing to circumstances beyond his control, nephew L didn't make it yesterday to help. We're heading into peak flow for the season this week/end, so I pitched in this morning and again this afternoon. We still don't have all the tapping done, between one thing and another, so it's quite important.
This morning was some of the triple-black-diamond parts of the west hill.
fitzw did the drilling and I tapped in the taps (so they have a good seal and don't pop out of the tree). Better this week than last week though, when there would have been 2-3 more feet of snow on the ground. In the afternoon we had nephew L and also some folks who want to learn about the sugaring process. They collected sap and fitzw and I headed back out to tap more, this time more to the north. Fortunately the slopes there were a bit more reasonable, with fewer tricky bits. So, 2 hours in the morning and 4 in the afternoon....Uff.
