Sweet and Sour Dill 2011

Time to get a thread started. I just went through my last 2 years of threads,and I really enjoyed seeing where I was at.
Josh, my father in law, father and brother came over to help today and in less then a sunday last week and a saturday this week, we've added almost 300 taps. I have 2 more laterals to tension up and cut drops in tomorrow and 2 really short laterals for trees on the mainline.
Still haven't tapped any, I was hoping today but ran out of daylight and helpers. I'm going to run new lines at my parents place in Lee tomorrow afternoon and tap those trees. They also run early and shut off earlier than Northwood.
So all I have to do tomorrow is fill the Sugar wood shed, the house wood shed, plow out to another place I tap. Clean the head tank, test boil, and finish today's jobs, and run new lines in Lee. No problem.
Here's looking towards a great season.

Good luck Alden!!!

Sounds like your moving right along...not to jinx you, but it seems you're way ahead of where you were at this point last year.

All I can say is its gonna be a better year than last year!!! (It has to be!!)

Sounds like you had a busy day planned for today. How much of it did you get done? Gotta hurry now. The season is just about here.

Alden, I agree it is nice to go back through last year's posts.

How much did I get done? Not everything, but some.
The wife spent the night at the inlaws to leave early on a hike and took our 1.5 month old with her, and my daughter spent the night at my folk's place. So I slept the blessed uninterrupted sleep of the childless.

Anyway, I ended up running 6 more laterals and adding another 40 or so taps. Two of those even had less than 5 on them. The record so far in these woods is 40 per lateral. I know strive for 5 and all that. Its a whole heck of lot slower do that stuff by myself. I still haven't tapped this woods, but maybe this week.
I filled the house wood shed and put a few more buckets of wood in SH shed.

And TAPPPED at my folk's farm. Well I have 30 out. But its a start. I have a new section to run down there with another 20-30. And I have to plow out a neighbor's woods road where I have 70. But I'm making progress.

Oh and how do you know you been on snowshoes for too long? When you try to climb in your truck with them on.

saw the funniest thing yesterday...my youngest came out to help the old man with his new snowshoes..I spent 15 minutes getting them adjusted...I no sooner got them all on when he looked at me and said he had to go the bathroom..NOW!...back into the house he ran...with his snowshoes still on..I was standing in the driveway laughing at the sight for about minutes when I heard this loud DAD HELP!..I ran into the house to find my boy with his snowshoes on...his snowsuit around his ankles...his pants half up..and all this in a tangled heap between the toilet and the tub...Oh MY GOD..I just about choked I was laughing so hard..I just had to call his mother to see what her son had done...She who must be obeyed has no sence of humor:lol:

Kids are like that....try to take them sledding back in the woods I put them in the sled put on my snowshoes get about 100 ft back and I hear dad I have to Go!!! OH MAN yep back to the house!!! luckily it was only 100ft back. I know I did it to my folks too!!!

I dont ask them if they have to use the bathroom before an outing rather I tell them if you want to go with me you better go first. Learned my lesson early on when I hiked back in the woods to fish with the youngest once and after about an hour hike and got to the fishing spot he looked at me and said I have to go to the bathroom. Gave him options, suffer, use the hermit bathroom or we leave. Well we left. Got back home and he said I dont have to go now. :mad:

I'm glad that my kids are all grown up now. I don't have those I have to go problems anymore. Now it's me that has to go!