February Journal THE COUNTDOWN!!!

[smitty76]

Just for the fun of telling you guys, my wife just got off the computer from her most enjoyible past time(face book) and says to me" maple people are on face book"( as if I did not know). So I reply to her "yeah, I know". so then she gets pissy and I tell here" Its the maple guys, right". With a disepiontment in her breath she says"yes" and that is when I tell her that there are more of us(maple people) than there are of her kind( nieve fools that think that I am the only one sufferring from this desease(maple bug). Totally blow her mind that we have now migrated to facebook now. . And I am just smiling from ear to ear.


Smitty76

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

well im running on reserves now... had a big snow storm last night dropping 20 inches of snow on the ground. had 6 calls lastnight and just as i fell asleep a salt truck flipped over. so it was back to the station. havent done to much with maple. been at the fire station more than ive been in the sugar house. being a cadet is tiring especially when im the one carrieng the tools haha. well its not work if you enjoy it.

This world would be a much better place if all the kids were like you!

[caseyssugarshack93]

Im on Face book So is maple crest, Dano, And Jim the aministator

[Farmboy]

This world would be a much better place if all the kids were like you!

Yes there are only a few kids left that work for anything. I've seen way to many drug heads in middle school. Kids complain about the stupidest things. Most kids need to get paid to do any thing including take out the trash. It makes me sick sometimes what some kids get paid for doing nothing.
Back on maple. I split some more pine and wooed on my sugar shack today

[vtsnowedin]

Soon to be son-inlaw and I ran 700 feet of half inch mainline down the hollow on Daughter'sland. Minus 2 this AM but got up to fourteen and was getting a bit stuffy down in the hollow. Nice break to walk up to the saddle and catch that fresh breeze direct from the pole. We should get 80 to a 100 taps on that line but have to run it to a tub and fetch it with the JD tractor. Got to rig up two 55gal. blue barrels for fore and aft tanks on it. Now I have to run out what 5/16 tubing I have and see how much more I will need to get to 300. I'm glad that snow stayed south (sorry you southern guys). It was easy walking on the well frozen base 9" with just four inches of loose on top of it.

[danno]

As I was running mainline in my new toasty carharts today with temps struggling to make low teens, I remembered that I wanted to let you guys know that Tractor Supply has all their winter carharts (tops, bottoms, combined) at 30% off. Good prices.

My wife was sick of seeing me in my 10 yr. old Artic Carhart - man did that thing wear well. Picked up new tops and bottoms for under a $100.

[3rdgen.maple]

Geez Danno wish you would of posted that earlier..... I got back from taking my daughter to her competition horse rifding lesson and drove right by one. Was looking at them in the Ace store a few days ago and they wanted 150 just for the bibs. Good to know. Wole up this morning feeling about 20%. Sinuses hurt, head hurts and my eyes are on fire. If I am feeling better tomarow I will make a drive back their.

[maplekid]

thanks guys for the kind words. just maybe starting a tradition. hopefully when i have kids they love maple and the sound of the tones as much as i do. ive noticed on here that alot of the sugarmakers are fireighters haha. can never be to safe

[Turtlecreek]

Yeah, we had a couple of calls last night too. All low budget, but I'm not complaining. Spent tidy shoveling out here and got called to work to shovel and plow some more. Tommrow I think I'll be on the trail snowmobiling this may be it for the year. Maple season is in the air, I keep looking out at the bush and seeing my ribbon in the trees, thinking Am I ready? I guess I'm as ready as I can be just need to get a little more storage and we are good to go!!

[Gary R]

Western PA guy's. We get a free classified paper called the "Area Shopper" in it Friday was an add for buckets, spiles, tubing, gathering tanks and evaporator. I called Sat. morning just to see. An older woman answered the phone and said it was all sold. I asked about the evaporator. She didn't know what size it was. She said it was new and in 3 seperate boxes. Anybody know what I missed?