We enjoyed the process, and worked hard to balance sugaring with Rob's full time job, Katie's part time job, caring for our 3 year old and 8 month old daughters and including them in the sugar making process. We had lots of muddy adventures to check the level in our new sap tank, pump the sap, and check on lines in the woods. We ate dinners in the sugar house together and sang songs around the evaporator. We loved the hard work, the family time and of course the sweet syrup on our waffles, and just about everything else we cook!
This year our season was a bit shorter than others. Often weather is the biggest factor in determining when and how much maple syrup is made. For us though, since making maple syrup is still a hobby, our season is very dependent on Rob's work schedule as well. This year he was scheduled to travel during part of the sugaring season. So, while we still tapped about trees and made 22 gallons of maple syrup, we also sold sap to another sugar maker. While this was not nearly as rewarding for us as a family, we were glad to have some time in the sugarhouse before Rob's travels and also glad to share the sap from our trees to ensure it would be used when we were not able to turn it into liquid gold ourselves.
We find it is often important to take a break from doing things you love. It provides an opportunity to reflect on what you love about it, why you do it, what is hard about it and what we could do differently. This year we took a year off from making maple syrup, partially due to unexpected major house renovations-Renovations like when you prop up your roof and rebuild the whole house underneath it! Fortunately, we discovered that we really did miss the hard work and sweet rewards of maple sugaring season and wanted to get back to it.
We had plenty of ideas to improve and we had a renewed energy to draw from. While we didn't make maple syrup this year, we did spend a lot of time and energy in the sugarbush preparing for next year. We all worked together to fill the woodshed, run more tubing, clear fallen branches from the sap lines, set up a new piece of equipment on our evaporator designed to remove water from the sap at a faster rate, and therefore decrease not only the time it takes to make syrup, but the amount of firewood needed to make the same amount of syrup.
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