Glad to be back

Welcome back! After putting four taps in Wednesday, we finished putting in the rest of the hanging-bucket taps yesterday. 19 so far. It seems really early to be doing it, yet I see it was the same weekend last year. A lot of people put them in a full week earlier as the weather was changing.

This had been a 'dud' of a winter. After a decent snowstorm before the holidays, there hasn't been more than a few inches of snow...total. The yard is covered with an icy/snow mix of about 2-3 inches thick. Tromping through the woods to tap usually involves snowshoes. Not this year. Word has it that the sugaring season will be shortened by no snow because the trees will bud earlier. We'll see....