AAASTINKIE is HERE!!

[rgecaprock]

Frank, you should stick your beers out there and get them chilling for tonight.


Ramona

 

[NorthernWinos]

We got about 4-6 inches...hard to tell it blew so hard....and is still blowing...Now we are having much below normal temeratures...so the snow it just sitting...cold for the next few nights....this is the most fickle time of the year....


They say the sun is at the hight of late August...could fool me!!!

 

[AAASTINKIE]

14" of snow here Wednesday night Thursday morning, Friday I collected 535 gallons of sap!! Going out in a while to see if I have to collect today, also made some labels this morning.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

 

[rgecaprock]

Very Nice Frank,


I like the Barolo Bianco!!!

 

[sangwitch]

Nice labels Frank! Are you still snowed in up there? How close are you to Mount Katahdin and the Applachain trail?

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Snowed in?? We only had 14"...lol

I'm 75 miles from Katadin, I think, I think I can hit the trail in around 40 miles.
Heres what 1600 gallons of sap gets me....

 

[Waldo]

stinkie.......is that stove authentic or a replica. It looks just like the one Mom had in her kitchen when I was a kid on the farm. It was one oof my chores every morning to get her a fire going in the stove as well as the fireplace. If it was my turn I always made sure there was a good gum backlog putin the fireplace before going to bed at night which assured a good bed of coals the next morning to get a fire going quickly. Them ole bare hardwood floors was mighty cold earl of a morning.

 

[grapeman]

Looks like about 20 gallons of pure maple syrup- lots of delicious pancakes there Stinkie. One good thing about the cold snowy weather, it's extending the maple syrup season.

 

[Wade E]

Or quite a few batches of Maple Porter!

 

[sangwitch]

Stink, you gonna ferment some of that syrup? I saw a couple of recipes on gotmead.com that I want to try. Has anyone here made any meads from maple syrup?
Waldo - tell us more stories!

 

[sangwitch]

this thread is approaching two milestones... 100 pages and 20,000 views! Polly will be so happy.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Thats an Elmira cookstove, 30 years okld, I bought it used 20 years ago for $1200.
Just got in from hauling 275 gallons of sap to the sugarhouse, thats 8500lbs in 4 days, no place I'd rather be, not too shabby for and old men..lol

 

[Wade E]

You da man Frank!

 

[AAASTINKIE]

I finally got a picture of my little princess in one of the Disney dresses I sent her.

 

[Wade E]

Just adorable Frank! My daughter has hers from when she was about that
age and now puts it on 1 of her big stuffed animals but hers is Pink.
What a great time when theyre that age.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Buckets are all washed!! I have to go to work tonight, so I'll put them away tomorrow, the hard part is OVER!!

 

[AAASTINKIE]

My hands will smell like bleach for a week!!

 

[rgecaprock]

We like a man with dishpan hands!!!!

 

[Wade E]

Thats alot of primaries Frank!