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Some of the Maple Syrup made in 2009
Maple Syrup
Hello All, This blog is to document my adventures back into making maple syrup. Its been 20 years since I made maple syrup. Finally bought a place with some land and young maple trees.
Some of the Maple Syrup made in 2009
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Evening in a Sugar Orchard
by Robert Frost
From where I lingered in a lull in march
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
'O fireman, give the fire another stoke,
And send more sparks up chimney with the smoke.'
I thought a few might tangle, as they did,
Among bare maple boughs, and in the rare
Hill atmosphere not cease to glow,
And so be added to the moon up there.
The moon, though slight, was moon enough to show
On every tree a bucket with a lid,
And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon.
From where I lingered in a lull in march
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
'O fireman, give the fire another stoke,
And send more sparks up chimney with the smoke.'
I thought a few might tangle, as they did,
Among bare maple boughs, and in the rare
Hill atmosphere not cease to glow,
And so be added to the moon up there.
The moon, though slight, was moon enough to show
On every tree a bucket with a lid,
And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon.
How do we know how the sap is flowing
Wind out of the North, the sap Cometh Forth
Wind out of the East, the sap runs the Least
Wind out of the South, there is a Drought
Wind out of the West, the sap runs the Best
Wind out of the East, the sap runs the Least
Wind out of the South, there is a Drought
Wind out of the West, the sap runs the Best
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