January Journal

Tim and Danno I really gave up on how much snow we have gotten. Started thusday and still coming. Thing is you can go outside in the morning and there is another 10 to 12 in the driveway and after a few hours it is half that. Really light stuff. If I had to guess I would say 4 feet but it has settled to about 2 after all said and done. Have not been up to Redfield so I am not sure what they have but it is always more than me. Funny stuff the way it follows the Salmon river. You can drive 3 miles west to Pulaski and see half the amount we got then the closer you get to the upper resivour they usually get double what I got. I feel bad for those guys up there.

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Originally Posted by Brent

Hey Brad be careful on that early ice, especially if its snow covered.
It doesn't set up so fast when its got snow on early.

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Thanks I am very cautious about the ice I went out and checked the other day and the cove I go on always freezes first and there is 7-8 icnches of solid black ice as you go out of the cove it goes down to 4-5 inches pretty quick so I won't venture out there for at least another week.

Went to laywer to do legal stuff this morning. Going with a LLC. House and property is under my name so we figured it was the best thing. Now I don't know if anyone has ever been sued for getting sick from maple but I didn't want to be the first.

Quick side note about stupid things on thin Ice. One of my good friends from High school died last week when He and another friend that I went ot school with decided to do a polar bear plunge in a lake back in NJ. well if that wasn't bad enough they dared each other(always doing stupid things like this) decided to swimm to shore. here is the catcher...under 3 inches of ice!!! He was a good friend he didn't make it, but how stupid of a way to go is that. the other guy did make it.

Daughter #2 came down this morning and we stacked the slab wood that I cut up the other day. While we were at that Josh (future son in law) took his tractor and saw and cut down and twitched out a good sized dead white pine to the sugar house and we cut that up and split some of it. Then we hopped into their truck and drove down to Bascom's Sugarhouse in Alstead NH. First time We had been there. The map on their catalog leaves a little to be desired but a cell phone call to them got us there. Nice show room, everything a sugarmaker could want or need. The one thing they were out of was 3/4" black plastic pipe. More coming next week but that was a surprise. The woman on the counter was very helpful and really new her stuff and where it was. I'm sure I'll be back or at least ordering on line from them again and again.

I haven't been to their place yet but they have great service on the phone and they are very fast at getting your orders out from the internet....just as good as the maple guys!!! :)

Well I made it to D&G for the first time this year. They seem to have cut back on stock or something. I priced out arch board and they are 3 times as high in price as Bascoms in the states. I have tried to find other sources but so far no luck. There is a company makes it in bigger sheets but can't find a source close by or even in Quebec so far. I might end up buying rock wool insulation and compress it with cement board and go from there. I can buy more then enough rock wool for the same price as one little peice of arch board.
Found the nicest looking bucket spouts today at D&G. They are clear blue plastic and are 5/16 and supposed to be easy to clean. Bought a few to try out just for a change of diet.

UHHHH TOO MUCH TO DO TOO MUCH TO DO! to do list is starting to really drive me NUTS, its all i think about in school, ive got to go get a 1000 gal tank and figure out how to get it in the woods real soon i think i will put it on sleds and come along it up there, thats going to be an all day afair, gotta finish getting the wood into the shed, fix a broken main line, go around and tighten up all the lateral lines, hopefully add 150 more taps ( first order all the lateral line and fittings to do so), order 600 throw aways, order filters and cans, redo the roof on my tank shed before the thing falls in, fix the line that comes down from the tank to the road, run the pump line down to my little bush, im sure i can add more if i really sat and thought about it, but you get the idea, can you say stress?????? my mother was in the hospital for 2 days and got home last night, some thing was up with her heart and they really cant explain exactly what, but for the last 2 days i got 0 hours of sleep, but with her home i slept like a baby last night, happy shes back and back on top, as for me ive been kinda sick for the last 2 weeks and right when im starting to get over it i start getting all plugged up and sore again, aint life great? but thats the way it goes, i wouldnt have it any other way because thats what puts the fun in living! well i think im going to retire for the night

Well the snow is gettin pretty close to the top of our 4' fences. Just keeps coming. Finally got plowing done yesterday with our shop pay loader, and now there's another 8" or so. Once it all really settles, it will look a lot better. Even two miles away in Fulton they don't seem to have as much as us. You never know!

Tim

Just think once it gets alittle deeper you can just make tunnels and then who cares how much it snows.
Keith

" we got then the closer you get to the upper resivour they usually get double what I got. I feel bad for those guys up there.[/QUOTE]


Yep, we're right on the upper reservoir and we've given up keeping that road open. Just snowmobile in and out now. Total snow last year was right around 400".

went out on the ice for about an hour yesterday that's all I had time for caught 18 yellow perch... I only keep monster perch but I haven't seen any of those in a few years.