daily yarns 'n more

how high are your gas prices?

Sitting in the van while Jim gassed up I spied the gas sign in the rear view mirror, this was taken yesterday.  I mostly took this shot because the reflection was pretty neat and more than one reflection going on in this shot.

Well it seems the sap run has slowed down now.  Jim is checking the level of the boil, you don't want to get it down too low or you can burn the batch your boiling.  So far, so good, we haven't done that yet.  After 6 days of boiling, total to date is approximately 360 gallons of sap and 7.37 gallons of syrup.

Equipment is cleaned and ready for the next run. 

Hope you all have a great start to your week.

it snowed

Yesterday we woke up to snow and the trees looked so pretty.  Our bird feeders look so lonely out there on the back deck.  I didn't fill my feeders this winter as we were going to be gone for more than a month.  I didn't want the birds to come and then all of a sudden they weren't being fed, but now it's time to fill them up again.  I miss my feathered friends.

while the sap was boiling

I finished the baby quilt that I was making for a wonderful cause.  I used "minky" fabric for my backing, I have not made anything with this fabric and I absolutely love the feel of it.

I made 4 place-mats and now I'll work on finishing them up.  It's definitely busy over here :)

breakfast ::

greek yogurt...kashi cereal...strawberries from our garden

YUM!

we've got it down pat

Jim has his end all figured out and so do I.  After the sap boils in the evaporator it gets brought in the house where I finish the boiling process.

I test it with a hydrometer to get it to the correct temperature, then we strain it and put it in hot bottles.

Yesterdays boil yielded a gallon of syrup.

We'll see if we get the number we got last season which was just over 20 gallons of syrup.