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.

first strawberry!

We have wild strawberries growing in several places in our yard. This was the first one to ripen. Mike and I split it after we took the picture. It was maybe one inch tall. There won't be enough of them to really do anything, but we're excited nonetheless!

Holy Macaroni!

Project Vicki is 4 years old this month. I put my first post up in April 2004. Project Vicki started out on paper as a collection of my goals, my strengths, weaknesses, and just me figuring out who I was/am. I even wrote my own mission statement like Stephen Covey advises.

I put it online so I could update it regularly. Four years later I still don't update as much as I'd like, but it helps me think about my goals, and what I want.

A lot has changed in four years!

First post
Second post made one hour later!

Man in snow

We got socked with over a foot of snow plus the snow drifts. Here's my honey, knee-high in the snow investigating little critter tracks. When I say "critter," I really mean a frightening, smelly, stripy, stinky skunk. I'm afraid to leave the house in the morning in the dark.

february blahs

Does anyone else have the February blahs? You know, nothing is really wrong, but nothing exciting is going on. Every night I come home from work, fix dinner, maybe run the dishwasher, pay bills, then get in bed and watch tv or read. Just sort of maintaining. Not accomplishing much, not falling behind. Blah.

Now that the days are getting longer, and it's almost light out when I leave for work, I think it's time to set some new goals and reinvigorate my life.

Watch for posts about new goals.