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SS,
Tell you what, this is supposed to be the "Sunshine Town" but, I've got news for you, it does get cloudy here!!!
More cows than people, now that's nice, farmland!!!! :-)
Good way to get bigger, a little at a time, unless your from PA!! (Hi Theron!!)
My wife is very supportive too!!
I just keep trying to make her job easier!!
With our small operation we seem to sell most of our syrup each year.
Matt,
It's ok if you start to loose your hair, just tell your wife it's a solor panel for a sex machine!!!!
Hopfully she won't tell you to wear a hat like mine does!!!!
Your going to start bumping your head all the time now!!!
Governor,
When you going down to pick up your releaser?
You want some company?
Got to eat some breakfast, keep the machine going!!!
Kids are coming over, it's the grand-daughter's B-day, well not today, it was lat Thursday, she's a cabbage night kid!!!
Hope to get out to change a few lines today.
Dave
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3%- Boys makin drops as we speak. The sun is shining up on the hill and as soon as pretty mommy gets home from work Im headed for the woods where I belong. Ill have to tell her about the solar panel thing. I kind of have that goin on too. Trying to figure out what to sell next to buy more sapline. Gonna be pretty bare around here for a while. Might be walkin to work unless I run out of trees. Time to get serious now. There could be BIGSAP down here in a couple of months. Theron
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i hate when i have a great day like yesterday it always seems like if i have a day where it seems so nice and all goes well bam the hammer falls and u find out it was all for nothin ... that was yesterday ......
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Ok Peacemaker. what did I miss?
What was the hammer that dropped?
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oh just one of those things sometimes i just cost more money to go to work then it would have to saty home and play barn with my daughter and eat halloween candy
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Just one of those ripples in life.
Can't be smooth all the time, hell we'd never enjoy ourselves.
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and if u wait a little those ripples flatten out and all goes back to normal
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Had my first sunday off since May, so I went and mapped out a new sugarbush. Added up to around 200 taps. Nice even slope southwest exposure, beautiful. On the way down the road I decided to stop and look at another property that was supposedly logged. Walking up the mountain all I said was,"sugar maple, sugar maple, red maple, huge sugar maple, etc...." the property , at least the maples, had never seen a saw. I already have 500 taps on the property next door so this will become my big sugarbush. My plan is to hook both properties together and have vacuum there next year. That should bring me up to about 3,000 taps on vacuum in the valley and another 500 or so gravity. I'm planning on finishing my expansion of my big bush this week and start right in on the new one.
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Finished putting in 800 feet of 1" pump line to bring the sap up out of a steep ravine. Have 400 taps down there now and have lines run for 500 more. going to save a lot on the chevy 4x4 and trailer to have it all at the top of the hill on the flat .Less wear and tear on equipment!
Now we have to get those 500 taps cut into the main lines before the weather turns sour. Beautiful here today 68 and sunny Great day to be in the woods!
Jim
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Well didn't get anything done in the wood or the evap this weekend but the sap hauler had his 16 birthday party. He wanted a bonfire for his party and that's what we gave him. Worked all day sat do clean up and set up the fire and today after the change in time we (wife included) with the help of a brother-in-law put more insulation in the attic of this old house. I have not given a dollar to the mid east for heat in two years and not going to start this year. It made for a long work weekend and I can't wait to go back to work to rest. I did make a sketch of the new evap on Friday and will get a material list together. Hope to make the frame out of angle and fill it in with hard red or fire brick, time and budget will tell. Hope all had a good weekend.
