It’s Over

The Letdown Alone in the evaporator room at 5pm – the green hose snaked across the cement floor that cools her feet, a dish rag draped over the counter, the rag laden with six screw-and-nut ensembles resembling barbells, four more nuts in a line, and two rows of four washers each, the woodshed doors both… Read More

Early April Woods Report

Crew member Larry Lackey writes: On the woods crew’s agenda for early April has been to check for and repair leaks in the sap collection lines. This was the third time around for most sections of the bush. The problem is not sap leaking out, but rather air leaking in to the tubes, reducing the vacuum… Read More

The Post-it Wall

WEATHER: “Oh dear, what do I say about the weather?” asks the Blog Editor of Chief of Operations as he fills the wood stove and lights a fire for the evening. “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” he replies. “Isn’t that a Mark Twain saying? Or was there a different… Read More

A Spring Chicken

Yesterday felt like spring. Master Boiler Christian discarded his hat and hoodie and worked in a T-shirt. Flies swirled around the syrup jugs on the picnic table. The entire sugarhouse took on a new smell, and for the first time the grade dropped from Fancy/Golden to Amber the color of the glaze on Maple Trout… Read More