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  • From: keith bellinger <bartermn AT epix.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] spring cleansing
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:16:34 -0400

Three weeks ago I tapped two soft maple in my backyard. Today I turn sap to syrup over a small fire pit dug yesterday through a two-inch frost with pick and shovel. Coals are building as I write. I can't be long.

Of the fifteen gallons of sap I expect only a couple pints of syrup but that isn't why I do it. There isn't anything that compares to a campfire and its cleansing smoke after a long winter. Happy Spring all.





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