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oh yeah I'm in PA
Mar. 2nd, 2019 06:37 pmI drove down late last night.
it's an unfortunate collision in timing with the start of ncaa women's hockey playoffs and the last weekend of nwhl regular season games.
but I spent the day in the woods, first picking up split wood and stacking it in a bin. We have been trying to shove more wood into bins by sticking 4 1x1s into the bin to hold more wood. I got my stack about a foot and a half over the top of the bin. this is all small stuff for boiling sap
then I ate a quick lunch and made the trek to the maple hill. my parents had 35-40 mph winds recently and dad was concerned that branches had fallen on the lines. the branches aren't the problem, the lines just stretch, the squirrels are. they chew through lines that lay on the ground, perhaps because they want the sap, perhaps because they're agents of chaos intent on increasing entropy in the universe.
thankfully, there was only three or four down, but I still had to wander all over the hill looking at the tap lines. Sap wasn't running today despite the high temperature because the mountain face is north facing and we had no sun. So it was still chilly. I was also supposed to check if there were leaks in the lines, but no sap running so I couldn't.
dad is actually out there boiling the first sap of the season right now. they got about 700 gallons of sap last week and they got everything ready to go. it's pretty cool. constant too. dad has to feed the fire every 8 minutes to get the heat they need. He's got a timer and everything.
after the hill, I went and split wood up on the hill at the home farm. it was decent.
the ncaa thing came up because RPI (8th in the ECAC and frankly not that good although I love them) is playing Cornell (1st in the ECAC and really really fucking good, they've lost 3 games this year, tied two and won 17). It's best of three. Here's the thing: RPI is holding their own. They played Cornell twice this year in regular season and lost both 5-0 and 8-2. terrible! but last night, RPI took them to overtime and Cornell finally won 2-1. I figured RPI would choke today because they can be so inconsistant.
I listened to the last period of today's game and I tuned in expecting cornell to have scored like five goals
RPI. shut. out. cornell.
SHUT OUT CORNELL TWO TO ZERO
I was SO STRESSED listening to the game while on the hill splitting firewood. Cornell put 49 shots on goal. RPI had 6 (SIX)
Lovisa Selander is just kicking ass and taking names. I couldn't believe it.
Literal shrieking from me as I worked.
so that's cool. they'll play tomorrow as the deciding game and I will totally be able to handle it
NOT
I'm currently watching the Buffalo at CTWhale game and the Whitecaps at Pride is at 7:30.
stress from them: Buffalo, Minnesota, and Boston are all tied for first place and these games plus tomorrow's two will determine who gets first place going into the playoffs. No big deal. That only gets them home ice advantage.
so I haven't caught up with things today and I will work on it, but also: hockey
it's an unfortunate collision in timing with the start of ncaa women's hockey playoffs and the last weekend of nwhl regular season games.
but I spent the day in the woods, first picking up split wood and stacking it in a bin. We have been trying to shove more wood into bins by sticking 4 1x1s into the bin to hold more wood. I got my stack about a foot and a half over the top of the bin. this is all small stuff for boiling sap
then I ate a quick lunch and made the trek to the maple hill. my parents had 35-40 mph winds recently and dad was concerned that branches had fallen on the lines. the branches aren't the problem, the lines just stretch, the squirrels are. they chew through lines that lay on the ground, perhaps because they want the sap, perhaps because they're agents of chaos intent on increasing entropy in the universe.
thankfully, there was only three or four down, but I still had to wander all over the hill looking at the tap lines. Sap wasn't running today despite the high temperature because the mountain face is north facing and we had no sun. So it was still chilly. I was also supposed to check if there were leaks in the lines, but no sap running so I couldn't.
dad is actually out there boiling the first sap of the season right now. they got about 700 gallons of sap last week and they got everything ready to go. it's pretty cool. constant too. dad has to feed the fire every 8 minutes to get the heat they need. He's got a timer and everything.
after the hill, I went and split wood up on the hill at the home farm. it was decent.
the ncaa thing came up because RPI (8th in the ECAC and frankly not that good although I love them) is playing Cornell (1st in the ECAC and really really fucking good, they've lost 3 games this year, tied two and won 17). It's best of three. Here's the thing: RPI is holding their own. They played Cornell twice this year in regular season and lost both 5-0 and 8-2. terrible! but last night, RPI took them to overtime and Cornell finally won 2-1. I figured RPI would choke today because they can be so inconsistant.
I listened to the last period of today's game and I tuned in expecting cornell to have scored like five goals
RPI. shut. out. cornell.
SHUT OUT CORNELL TWO TO ZERO
I was SO STRESSED listening to the game while on the hill splitting firewood. Cornell put 49 shots on goal. RPI had 6 (SIX)
Lovisa Selander is just kicking ass and taking names. I couldn't believe it.
Literal shrieking from me as I worked.
so that's cool. they'll play tomorrow as the deciding game and I will totally be able to handle it
NOT
I'm currently watching the Buffalo at CTWhale game and the Whitecaps at Pride is at 7:30.
stress from them: Buffalo, Minnesota, and Boston are all tied for first place and these games plus tomorrow's two will determine who gets first place going into the playoffs. No big deal. That only gets them home ice advantage.
so I haven't caught up with things today and I will work on it, but also: hockey
