Well 3rgen your discribing getting old. I can drive to town to buy grocerys and buy everything but what I needed in the first place unless she who must be obeyed makes me a detailed list. Its unfortunate but a fact of life. Ask Hanyes.
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Well 3rgen your discribing getting old. I can drive to town to buy grocerys and buy everything but what I needed in the first place unless she who must be obeyed makes me a detailed list. Its unfortunate but a fact of life. Ask Hanyes.
Actually Ken he had heart surgery a couple years ago and this medicine he is on is causing it. We had them switch the meds about 6 months ago and man within a few days he was smart as a whip again, very alert just like his ole self. Problem being the new meds were not working to the docs liking and switched him back. It was like a light switch turned back off. I feel real bad for him but I am not sure if he takes notice to it or not but we sure do. So i guess the getting old part affected his heart first and the meds his brain. Oh well we still love him just gotta keep a closer eye on him.
Thats why they call it practising medicine. Theres a guy at school whos a lawyer in Coloumbia and is trying to learn french. He's haveing problems but you should see the meds hes on. They are both ones that cause memory loss and stupor. Not that a lawyers ever been smart in the first place but hes just not doing as well as he should be. We both wrote the last test and got the same mark and I am 10 years older and senile.
My first wife had a seires of stokes before she was 40 and I had to spend almost full time trying to keep track of her. The vetrans affairs people even paid me to have to look after her so much.
put 3 taps in at 10:30 and then decided that on this beutiful perfect 37 degrees bright sunny day that i wanted 0 sags in any of my lats and i wanted those old lamb purple lats tight as a banjo and basically fixed almost every lat in the whole big bush, untill i was satisfied with the fact that you could pluck every one of them and watch it vibrate back and forth, by the time i got done there was 15 min of day light left so i grabed my new handy dandy tanaka tapper and lit up the world, shot it 21 taps before it got so dark i couldnt find the hole i just drilled, had to pull out the cell phone to find it then i called it quits, tomorrow im going to find a fitting for my 2 stroke pump, the **** thing is italian, and i cant find a fitting that will thread on the thing, the hardware store guy said he thought it might be fire hose thread so i went to the fire dept, and their hoses wanted to fit it but just wouldnt thread on, martin vontrapp, who is my farmer friend and my go to guy when i run into mechanical problems, right off the bat said, ohh its probably metric, and no one sells metric fittings round here, maybe TSC will, going to have to check because weathers looking good for sap, if i get the big bush all in tomorrow, then im going to need that pump in a hurry!
Well Im pretty much ready to go, just waiting on the weather Just need to put the float box on and hang the command center. I installed a new on/off switch for the blower right at the evaporator this year so I can turn off while loading instead of loosing eyebrows. Got a new cooler for the sugarshack to replace my ailing fridge. This thing is going to be great it was a keg cooler from a bar and will hold about 10 5 gallon jugs plus refreshments!! Not to mention it has a 30 by 60 stainless top on it. I think ill tap next weekend cause we may have a bout of snow here the middle of the week. Hopfully we wont get much at this point because some of my main lines are only 18 inches of the ground.
it looking like go time here in northwest PA going to start tapping thrusday hope it is all done and leak free be ready to turn on the vac pumps monday morning and start sucking sap
Weathers trying to warm up here but then we have cold forecast for a while again. I tried on test tap today on a tree out in the open. Will see what happens. I actually think that March 10-12 will be the dates to be tapped by.
Well we are to get another round of snow again Friday!! :o
One of those great North-Easter's OH YEAH!
Will it ever end. I am making syrup but slowly and with the low sugar content it takes a lot of sap to make syrup. Now I will have to wait even longer till the snow is melted out of the woods for the trees to really get going.
Finally, after ripping out all my branch lines back in Dec. I finished replacing them all and am ready to tap this weekend. Best part is I went from 830 taps to over 900. I think I only have 5 or so branch lines with 6 taps, all the rest 3-5. Also added 40% more main line in the process. Should be a great year if the weather is normal! Hope I have enough sap storage!
Well Im sitting here in Maine in a Hotel. Got to break some equipment down tomarrow. Going to make the trip back through NH and stop at bascoms and fill the truck with some uneccesary maple stuff. Well some of it I need bottles etc. and Im sure after a visit the truck will be filled with stuff just cause it looks cool. The report from home said the sap was running today. I got the maybe a gallon a tap answer. Will put the last 600 in when I get home thursday.