RE: In Search of More Sugar Maple Trees #fff
Acer? Acer Sachurarum? Dude, what’d you call me?!
The luckiest guy I know is the jealousiest (just go along with it, please) guy you know. 🤔 I never would’ve known the difference in leaves. The way you described getting the sap reminds me of the moon shining days. What a treat those days were man, you ever cook off shine? It’s all about hanging out with friends and although the finish line is what it’s all about—the 10 hour process is priceless.
Rip Van Winkle—good one.
Now for the fun part, right? Hanging out in your shorts with snow on the ground trying not to throw as many back as the amount of maple gets burned off—1:1. Yeah.. I can still see last years image and yeah, I still don’t have even an empty jug!
Man, you may have delays in between but you sure know how to swing for the fences. Great to see you post again dude. Always late but worth the.... wait, I forgot how it goes? 🤔
👍🏿 Have a great weekend, Bob. Thanks for throwing down, my man.
Good memory, me sitting around in shorts while cooking off the sap. Thanks for the reminder, that was a gorgeous day. I've never made moon shine, drank some way back in the day, we called it white lightening.
Years ago, a couple of buddies and me, for 5 years running, would enter the Delaware River Raft Race. You would build your own raft and paddle down the river, from Skinner's Falls to Digman's Ferry. We would never even come close to winning, but had a ball. The last year we entered, we took along a bottle of White Lightening. We always finished the 11 mile journey down the Delaware, but this particular year we had accomplished something that we had never accomplished in the past, we finished dead last. After about an hour on the river we just stopped paddling and floated at a very leisurely pace.
My pleasure to be back on board @dandays