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It’s official. It’s spring. And the sap is running. We just took in 10 gallons of sap to boil down tonight. Here are pics of the new-fangled plastic taps and piping and our version of the sap bucket. If you stick your mouth under the tap , you’ll get a faint taste of sweet maple, very diluted. Not that I’ve ever done that of course. And there’s maple icicles, too, hanging from the tree.
This weekend is Maine Maple Sunday where you get to go around to all the sugar houses and watch them boil down sap. They give out maple syrup over ice cream, maple whoopie pies, hot dogs steamed in maple syrup. And there’s a huge maple syrup pancake breakfast at the church. EVERYONE goes! It’s the social event of the season.
