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Busy weekend, busier two weeks ahead
Feb. 13th, 2023 08:47 am This past weekend, I went down to my parents to help them tap maple trees. It was three of us, climbing up and down the mountain all day and we got all 600 taps done in a day! It went great! It wasn't too cold or too warm, the snow had all melted off the mountain and we sat around a fire for lunch. Dad has a good system for the runs, so each line is numbered and we texted each other which line we were on as we went along it plus if we found any issues (spouts missing, animals biting lines, downed trees, etc)
I'm not too sore, which is good. My ankles and knees were a little ouchy at the end of the day but I sat under a heated blanket and at this point, the only bit of soreness is in my hip flexors and I was able to walk Mara up the ridge just fine this morning.
This is the view from the very top of the runs and between the creek and the mud, we actually walk up from the valley. It's pretty steep. The good news is that we get lots of breaks as we do the tapping. Tapping process is: drill hole with battery powered drill (bring the extra battery in a pouch or pocket), scrape the wood bits from the hole with a little wire hook, grab the drop/spout from the line and hammer it in until it makes a thunk sound, move on!
The next two weeks are kinda bonkers busy. I'm in the office today doing paperwork entry. Tonight crafting, tomorrow night video games with the family. I have two meetings tomorrow, one for my sidejob, one for work. The weekly evening webinars on wed and thurs for the seed course start this week, so I'll have a little afternoon time free but my free evenings are taken up. Thurs afternoon it's supposed to be 60f and sunny (okay I guess??) so I'm doing a burn of junk wood and sorting things that need to go into the shed still. Saturday is small engine maintenance day. I need to buy non ethanol gas, engine oil and gas stabilizer for the generator, snowblower, lawnmower and chainsaw, change the oil on all of them, get the generator into it's new home (F and her BIL poked at the generator switch and all that stuff over the weekend and we can run the water pump and heater off our generator! woo! and the switches are all hooked up properly! woo!). Sunday I'm going to the whale hockey game.
Next week, monday crafting and tuesday gaming again, then work conference all day (probably 6:30 am arrival to the hotel conference center to ??? time at night) is tues/wed/thurs although tues is mostly a preparation day. the evening webinars wed and thurs. I'm already tired! Fun!
I'm not too sore, which is good. My ankles and knees were a little ouchy at the end of the day but I sat under a heated blanket and at this point, the only bit of soreness is in my hip flexors and I was able to walk Mara up the ridge just fine this morning.
This is the view from the very top of the runs and between the creek and the mud, we actually walk up from the valley. It's pretty steep. The good news is that we get lots of breaks as we do the tapping. Tapping process is: drill hole with battery powered drill (bring the extra battery in a pouch or pocket), scrape the wood bits from the hole with a little wire hook, grab the drop/spout from the line and hammer it in until it makes a thunk sound, move on!
The next two weeks are kinda bonkers busy. I'm in the office today doing paperwork entry. Tonight crafting, tomorrow night video games with the family. I have two meetings tomorrow, one for my sidejob, one for work. The weekly evening webinars on wed and thurs for the seed course start this week, so I'll have a little afternoon time free but my free evenings are taken up. Thurs afternoon it's supposed to be 60f and sunny (okay I guess??) so I'm doing a burn of junk wood and sorting things that need to go into the shed still. Saturday is small engine maintenance day. I need to buy non ethanol gas, engine oil and gas stabilizer for the generator, snowblower, lawnmower and chainsaw, change the oil on all of them, get the generator into it's new home (F and her BIL poked at the generator switch and all that stuff over the weekend and we can run the water pump and heater off our generator! woo! and the switches are all hooked up properly! woo!). Sunday I'm going to the whale hockey game.
Next week, monday crafting and tuesday gaming again, then work conference all day (probably 6:30 am arrival to the hotel conference center to ??? time at night) is tues/wed/thurs although tues is mostly a preparation day. the evening webinars wed and thurs. I'm already tired! Fun!
