All that glitters is not gold

[Specklefield Farm]

Great bonehead moves in maple history.

Tonight after a 12+ hour boil, I saw an amber bead on the filter tank. Took my finger and wiped it, and the tongue did the rest. At first I was mesmerized.....where is the maple flavor? Started to think we were making crap and then I looked up! Our sugarhouse is built from rough cut pine and hemlock, the sap from the white pine was leaching out of the timbers from the extreme heat and a drop fell on the lid of the filter tank. Im still trying to get this crap out of my mouth!!

[Clan Delaney]

All those years your parents spent teaching you not to put strange things in your mouth... RUINED!

On the upside, free pitch! For, um, whatever pitch needs you may have....

[ackerman75]

That is to funny !!!!!!!!!:lol:

[mapleman3]

Some day in the way distant future, they find a large chunk of fossilized amber pitch from who knows where... but the find a sugarmaker frozen in time as if he was standing in front of something..... it's the beginning of the new movie!!!

"Jurassic Arch"

[gator330]

I was glad to hear the dog didn't just walk through!!!!

[Homestead Maple]

Have you ever chewed spruce gum?

[Specklefield Farm]

My wife is even getting in the digs....there was a glob of some clear goo on the windshield today, and she suggested that I taste it, it might be maple syrup!

[mapleman3]

I like her already ;)