29 Mar Sun 2009
Night Time Sugarin'
The sugarin' season is just about up, but here are some photos of last week's late night boil.
The whole family was out there working on making the sweet stuff, and we managed to even rig up some lights so we could see what we were doing.
We had a "warming" fire going as it was starting to get pretty cold again that night. It hit about 20 degrees, but the sugaring season is so short that one must take advantage of every possible moment!
We had a pretty yummy dinner out there!
We even set up a little serving table! We're so lucky that the kids enjoy this sort of thing...
In the past, I mentioned that we have the fire so hot in the evaporator that you can sometimes see flames licking out of the smokestack...In the next picture you can sort of see them shooting out a little bit. Watch out! Hot fire!
We still have a few more gallons left to boil, but it looks like we'll be topping 11 gallons of pure maple syrup this year! Quite an improvement from our make-shift efforts with Hotel pans over an open fire...
Gallons of our finished syrup ready to be bottled into glass jars...Yummy!