October Journal

[3rdgen.maple]

Ken not that I would try this but Duck tape has many uses. Maybe you could figure one out and get those guns polished off and put some meat in that freezer The lady of the house looked in the freezer today and said to me with a little smile " you better get busy there is alot more room in that freezer". Enough said I am getting after it hunny. As far as the sap, It is too warm yet. I could boil everthing I have gotten with one match. Heck I could probably even break that match in half and get it done. I think it will be a few weeks yet as there is still some 50's in the forecast with mid 30's at night.

[KenWP]

How big is your guest house 3rgen. I have maple trees that still have green leaves here. I wonder has anybody else found this problem. The trees with leaves still are maples that preformed poorly last spring. The tree that turned yellow fastest gave up sap the best also. Just a thought.
Man it's dark out there in the mornings already. But the sun comes up a bit faster next week for some reason. But it goes down faster at night also.

[mapleack]

Spent the weekend cutting down dead pines to finish clearing a path for new vacuum supply line. Some of these were 50' trees that had been dead for awhile, not fun to be cutting down. Had one big oak that was blown partially down and hung up. It took us close to two hours of cutting and pulling pieces with a tractor, cable and snatch blocks. We got 1,500' of 1.5" pipe unrolled at the end of yesterday, next up is stringing the wire and getting the pipe up on the wire.

[Fred Henderson]

I am just about done hunting. At least the pressure is off. I got two in the frezer now. If luck is with me maybe one more. Now I can start cutting wood for next year. But I will have a rifle in the RTV when in the woods. Talked with a tree cutter about having him directional fall some big pine for me when we get some snow. I am not real good at getting those trees to fall where they don't want to. I know I don't want any on my maples.

[Randy Brutkoski]

I agree Ken, The foiliage was a little strange this year. Every tree in my 4000tap bush only turned 1 color. Yellow. Not a single one had a slight bit of red or orange. Why is this? Does anyone know? The land owner said every other year there was good color. I am really curios why.

[3rdgen.maple]

My trees here were all yellow as well i just figured it was all the rain. Came home one day and all the black walnuts trees dropped their leaves all at once and were still green as ever. Funny in the morning they were completely green then when i got home everyone of them were bare. KenW my guest house is my sugarhouse so if you stay in there im putting you to work and you can bring your guns.

[Revi]

I'm putting lexan over the windows on the front of our sugarhouse. According to the guy at the glass place it will stop a bb, and won't shatter with something bigger. The window on the front door was shattered on Friday night by vandals. Probably a metal ball flung from a slingshot.

We don't want the place to be dark, but we need some kind of protection, so this might do the trick.

We may have caught something on camera too.

It is upsetting to have to have these kinds of security measures, but what choice do we have?

[3rdgen.maple]

revi it is a shame for sure. We had the same problem at camp. What we did was take 3/4 plywood and make some shutter that closed and got padlocked. Did this many years ago and have not had any problems since. It is a pain to open all the locks and shutters but it is better than changing a window in a snowstorm. I will never understand vandalism.

[mapleack]

Revi, my solution would be as follows : fix window, buy 12 gauge, sit around corner of suguar house friday night, use 12 gauge, fertilize sugar maples. No more broken windows.

[ennismaple]

I agree Ken, The foiliage was a little strange this year. Every tree in my 4000tap bush only turned 1 color. Yellow. Not a single one had a slight bit of red or orange. Why is this? Does anyone know? The land owner said every other year there was good color. I am really curios why.

We've had this 2 years in a row. I read a while back that maples go orange and red when they are stressed - either drought, rodent damage, infected by insects etc... Yellow leaves mean your maples are healthy. I thought the yellow was odd last fall but after we had a record year this spring I now want yellow leaves!