A strange sense of wealth

[aws]

Nothing makes me feel more wealthy this time of year than a 2 gallon bag of sap. Funny how excited we can get over a few gallons of basically water. Yesterday was a good sap run in Maine. I went to collect from our barrel in the woods, which is hooked up to 40 of our first taps on tubes. What a great thing to hear and see the sap pouring into the barrel in two steady streams instead of the slow drip we are used to with taps and bags/buckets. I wish I had more time to just stand around and enjoy it. :D

[marktripp]

You must be more southerly than me. Out of 68 taps yesterday I managed 22ish gallons. That's my best day of the season so far. Been tapped about 1week.

[aws]

I averaged about 1 gallon a tap.

[bowtie]

sometimes it is the little simple things we take for granted and sometimes they , when you "spot" one, can make you smile even if no one is around to notice. inner peace helps us make it through this hetic world we spin on.
when you sit in the woods and "realize" that there is a whole world of things oblivous to our society and worries, can put life back in perspective.

[Mark-NH]

I walked my lines in the dark last night with a flashlight doing vacuum leak patrol. It was so peaceful I could just feel the stress melting away.