Our first maple syrup harvest!

We've been wanting to tap our silver maple tree ever since we moved in, but never managed to do it until this year! Mike tapped the tree on Feb 28 and a week later we had a bucketful of sap. We had a couple more bucketfuls but they fell off the tree, darn it.

Mike boiled it down and we got about enough syrup for a couple pancakes! Can't wait to use it up.

 

Beautiful elixir!

Backyard Sugarin' is the bible of maple sugaring:

Backyard Sugarin': A Complete How-To Guide, Third Edition

Bringing it back

Woah, where did 2009 go? Has it been almost two years since I posted? A lot has changed. Changed jobs, planted a garden, had a baby!

As Project Vicki gets ready to celebrate 6 years as a blog, I thought it was time to bring it back.