Bragging Rights

[Dave Y]

Maple Flats,
You have reason to be proud of your children. It is nice to see them do well.
I didn't metion that my daughter has an A.A.S. in photography and works as a professinal photographer.

[mapleman3]

Western New Eng. just a half hour away... Hmmm could use a sap collector or help fire the evap.... Hmmmmm

Congrats though, those all sound good

My daughters boyfriend just got accepted into Penn State, we'll see , he's waiting for 2 others also...
Ugg I said my daughters boyfriend , she's almost 17, But luckily for me he's a good kid with a real good head on his shouldes, football player and tennis team, and very academic Plus he's a Vikings/red sox fan like me... he aint so bad afterall !!!

[maple flats]

I sure could go on for a real long time about my kids. #3 did give us a scare as he rebelled when he was 16. He quit school and moved out of state with his girlfriend who was 18. There he signed up and went back to school. A couple of friends there got in trouble and he came back home and finished high school. Then he went into the Air Force for 4 years and then moved back to his hometown. He had matured and has done very well ever since, and ex girlfriend is in California near where he was last stationed at Edwards Air Force Base. After the scare when he was 16 all turned out good in the end, except for the time being he seems to want to be a bachler. I must warn you, if you ever end up at the table he plays at a cassino you better be ready to lose some cash. His track record is super. I won't play him. It seems unfair that he makes much more a year playing Texas Holdem than I can working all these hours making maple syrup. Last year his net profit exceeded my gross sales and I had the best year ever. But he knows and loves poker, I love maple.

[3% Solution]

mapleman3,
Yeah he's a nice boy, he'd help you.
Give him a few minutes and he'd be running it for you!!!
Is Western NE, is that in Amherst?

Dave

[mapleman3]

Western NE is in Springfield.

[3% Solution]

mapleman3,
Ok, thanks for that info!

Dave

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Well, she's got a boyfriend, that's probably a good thing in this day and time considering the other alternative(s).

[Clan Delaney]

Is Western NE, is that in Amherst?

Dave

Amherst has UMASS, Amherst College and Hampshire College. One town over in South Hadley is Mt. Holyoke, and over in Northampton is Smith College. Often referred to as the 5 Colleges.

[3% Solution]

Clan,
Thanks for the info.
I got the map program out last night and checked it out.
I guess him and his girlfriend are going to be going to the same school.
That I think will be Western NE.
Didn't know it was a private school.
When they want to come home they can grab Amtrak which will bring them to Claremont (next town over). They can't have a car on campus the Freshman year.
Thanks again.

Dave

[Jeff E]

Bragging indeed.

Take a look at the photobucket 2008 file, a pic titled 'ye old sugar shack'. In the pic my wife seen by the arch, 2 kids are dumping buckets of sap, the other 2 are in the woods getting more. Cold, muddy, smiling.

Yesterday I hung some 1.5" line and the girls, 10 and 15, came out to help their old dad wire tie. They were each doing their own thing inside, each in their own rooms before coming out.
Once they got going they were chatting and laughing, working together. PRICELESS for dad to see.
I am appreciating these moments more and more, and this business is great way to make it happen.

One more story. About 4 years ago, we decided to take the kids to the Mall of America in MN, about 2 hours from our home. We collected sap first thing that day, and the kids jumped in the car afterwords and we headed to the mall to do the Camp Snoopy rides and such. We got there, and when they climbed out of the Suburban, I noted each one still had their barn boots on!
As you may guess, we enjoyed watching all the 'city folk' looking at the 'bumkins' walking through the Mall!