You know you're a maple addict when....

[VT_K9]

When your Wife calls you the Sap Miser and you spend more time in the woods with your dog than you do your family in the house regardless of the weather. Maybe she gets it from when I slow down to admire other peoples sugar shacks, how the tubing is run, or compare mainline sizes. You'd think women could relate, but no my Wife and Daughters don't have the same views I do.

Mike

[minnisd]

I worked for a farmer that still regularly used that remedy in the late '70s.

[wildwood]

...... When your wife, friends, family and coworkers "don't want to hear another ****ing word about maple ANYTHING"

[Galena]

re: Minnisd...I take it you mean the turpentine/milk mixture for worming workhorses? Poor things. Well, it definitely would've killed anything inside them. *shudder*

[saphound]

.....When you taste your own syrup for the first time.

[MustardSeedMum]

...when you almost drive into the ditch as you check out other people's setups and automatically count how many taps they have per tree.

And when you debate whether you should say something or not to the person porcupining a huge old maple, just 'cause it's what their grandpappy or great-great grandpappy did.

^^^This.

And you complain and whine about how much work it is and how little sleep you're getting and then turn around the next day (and next season) and put 20 more taps.

Or you tell yourself that this season you'll scale it down so you won't get overwhelmed and end up with more taps than the previous seasons.

[MustardSeedMum]

Jammies and boots here too.

[Galena]

...when all you can think about on the drive home from work is, how much sap is in my pails? And when you go to check you either a) groan, because there's no sap, so you have nothing to do all evening, or b) because there's way more than you expected, and you're gonna be up til 1am boiling it all to nearup. And your alarm is set for 7am.

Ahh, the life! :-)

[Russell Lampron]

When you change the lyrics to a Beach Boys song to "sappin USA"

I have to give credit for that one to Hop Kiln Road. Check post #43 in his thread.

[Galena]

...When you get up at 7:30 (or earlier) on a Sunday, instead of sleeping in.

And, if someone suggests you go out for brunch, you sneak along a jar of your own maple syrup with you, in case the place you're going serves *pole syrup*...UGH!!!