November Journal

jrthe3,
Snow belt, I guess so!!!!
We don't usually get snow piled up like that until January!!!
We got a dusting yesterday morning and this morning.
It's 18 here and the wind is blowing.
Nice day to stay inside!!!!!

Dave

Chris- I hope your grandson gets to doing better soon. Jrthe- Hope your wife finds a new job soon too, tough times right now all over for sure. I got my tanks in position today finally after quite a struggle. Ive got to say there wasnt one easy part to that job. Very heavy. Going to level them up tonight or tomarrow morning. Pretty whipped. I think they are going to turn out very nice though. Much less plumbing to freeze up and less rigamarole with only two sap tanks now. Maybe tomarrow I can finish that up and get the ones placed in the woods. Then its easy work for a while. I think Im going to take a nice Thanksgiving weekend and give it a rest then maybe hit it one week and I can finish it up pretty much Im hoping. Theron

Dave what do you mean "it is a nice day to stay inside"! I just got in from putting support post under my "mainline from hell" and I have been outside most of the day. The finger tips are just getting thawed out now. The supports are making the mainline look real good. I will get some pictures posted after it is done.

Russ,
Well aren't you the brave one!!!
You mean the mainline over the "great divide"?
Glad things are coming together, the mainline must just a swaying in this wind!!
Chris,
That's too bad about your grandchild.
We will pray that everything will be ok!
jrthe3,
How much snow do you have now??

Dave

I began making everything for Christmas. Lots of hours but lots of $. Made 20 lbs of candy and 5 lbs of cream today. Tommorrow more cream and coated nuts.
Keith

Thanks folks, This is a good place to vent some of the daily things that we have happen to us as a maple family. Hope your Thanksgiving is great with family and friends.

Pulled out another 5 gallons of light syrup from the frezzer. Also picked up a dozen quart jugs from Kennedy's to restock the shelves again. Several orders for candy and cream just before Christmas. This will be a good chance to try the syrup that I have plussed up the invert level.

Worked on the plow tractor and helped Eric put in a new hot water tank this P.M..

Also went to local fab shop (Edinboro Industries) today and punched 200 holes in air grates for Keith Talbot. He still is looking for 3 x 7 set of pans or something he can modify. If he had the stack and pans he could be boiling! I think he is going to tap about 100 or so taps?

Regards,
Chris

just got in from the sugar house there is about 3 inchs in driveway after spending 2 long hours yestarday with the loader digging out driveway hope we get i let up or my main lines will be under snow looking at the long term it not looking good if we get what they are predicting it will be close to 4 feet on the grown but i hope this is one of them time the weather man is wrong

Boyd,
You guys just to the East of us do get a little heavier frost than us sometimes. I was deer hunting near Waterford years back, after a big storm and wasn't sure if I was going to be able to drag myself through the 40 inches of heavy frost:)

I did get my tractor fixed today. Amazing things happen when you set down and read the manual;) Ready for the next frost.

Should be making Maple mustard tonight? But Cheryl and I just got back from a nice steak dinner at Long Horn in Erie. I think they have about the best fillet around! (Spending some of that hard earned syrup money to help the economy):)
Back to work for 2 days then PA bear season hunting on 26 Th.

Regards,
Chris

PA
to give you a better idea of where i at my sugar house is about
1000 feet south of the old pa state line


chris
i hunt the late flintlock season out by you in that big game lands off of 6
cause by that time there is to much snow to be walking though out here but this year i will be going down to the mountains my family leased 2500 arc. from IP see how it goes down there will be down there for the first week unless i get one

Guys-I got the tanks in place in the woods yesterday. Now all the tanks are where they need to be. I think yesterday was a milestone of sorts. Thats the end of all the hard work. Now Im pretty much to where Im doing a lot of hooking up things. Still a good bit to do but its all easy work. Depending on money I still want to do the buckets. If I come up with it which I think I will Im going to put out a 1000 buckets besides the house taps. Have to wait and see. Cant wait for spring. Could be tapping in in January and thats right around the corner. Theron