Four and a bit days on the mountain

Most of this was typed up Friday evening and is only somewhat coherent but that gives you a sense of how tired I was.

This became The Big Push to Get Shit Done for Maple Syrup. My whole body is sore. Wednesday was my first day on the mountain this week, replacing drops. We do maple syrup on a small/medium scale by tubes, around 600 taps. Smaller or more old fashioned producers do spouts and buckets where the buckets hang from the spouts or at the bottom of trees but that works best on flatter ground accessible by vehicle or horse drawn sleds. They also need to be emptied every day. We have a small mountain.

It is still a mountain. Actually, I think technically it is a ridge at the top of it, which isn’t where we are working, it’s further up and to the right of the below photo where my uncle’s orchard is. I don’t have a good sense of how high it is. In the view, we go up to the top of what is visible straight ahead and a little to the right.



( this is a long and rambly explanation with pictures and linked videos )