WEATHER: As predicted, it snowed all night, a cold fine snow. It’s still snowing today, a warmer flaky snow. It’s a Powder Day. The crew would like to be skiing, but after four days off from tapping due to the cold, they snowshoed up the hill this morning to tap. Their thighs ought to feel… Read More
Fifty Shades of Silver
Each day of tapping is unique but occasionally a day truly distinguishes itself. Chief of Operations reports on Day Four: TAPPING STATUS: Some of the crew have been tapping Morningside while the others have been working their way up Keystone. Tapping will resume on Tuesday the 12th. THE COUNTUP: Day Three, where we left… Read More
Tap Tap Tap
Here we go, folks: Sugar Season 2019 WEATHER: At the moment it’s a “wintry mix” but it sounds an awful lot like rain. This week’s on-again-off-again thaw follows many days of true winter glory, the snow deep and soft, the fields and woods bright and beckoning. TAPPING STATUS: The crew headed for the sugarbush on… Read More
fini
WEATHER: Finally it turned. We’ve had a stretch of sunny warm (60’s) days that drew everyone outdoors to see if the rhubarb was coming up yet, to notice a crocus blooming not in the garden where it should but under the apple tree, to pick up the pail of clothespins in one hand and a… Read More
Get going and then end
WEATHER: Yesterday, Friday April 20th, presented with 4″ of new snow.The temp ranged from 30- 33F. Early Saturday Morning Tanka after a bleak week: Not sullen but Sun. Shadows of apple trees claim the snowy bank. No squirrels, no wind, a raven who strikes the clapboards, retreats. HOW’S IT RUNNING? Once again yesterday the bucket… Read More
Root Drought and the Power of Suggestion
—Chief of Operations
No buds, no sap
“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” —the oft-quoted first lines of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land MORNING LAMENT: “Boy, high today 41. I don’t know what to do,” says Chief of Operations. “This is going to… Read More
This Magnificent Tree, Fred Rogers and Dr. Seuss
This blog mirrors sugar season in that there’s no predicting what course it will take each year. Imagine my surprise and delight in finding the following unsolicited blog offering in my mailbox this morning. NOTABLE MAPLES DEPT: Christian (crew ’15 and ’16) writes: a poem inspired by this magnificent tree, fred rogers and dr. seuss.… Read More
Global Energy Cookies
Who ever turns down the offer of a good homemade cookie? No one I know. Maple Trout Lilli writes: Notice how sunlight passing through pure, fresh VT maple syrup, casts an amber glow onto the plate of these Global Energy Cookies? Eat more syrup and ignite a glow from within! Another recipe from the cookbook… Read More
The Life of Kraus
CREDITS: Gnome artist: Ana Lucia Fernandez Photography and Text: Chief of Operations [Editor’s Note: If you hike the Pinnacle, look for Kraus and introduce yourself.]
The Nebraska Knoll Blog 