Posted by Adirondack case guy on April 14, 2015 at 19:51:53 from (74.69.160.79):
Well today, we lite the last fire in the small evaporator in the sugar house. We drained the sap from the big evaporator into the small one, bucket full by bucket full. Empting the sap from flue pan to flue pan, and finish pan to finish pan. (If I have confused some of you, feel free to ask questions, as there is a method with the shut down sequence). We filled both the gathering trailers with well water and dumped it into the storage tanks. Once the small evaporator was able to ingest, and boil down the sap from the big evaporator, and turn the combined sap in both evaporators, about 275gal., into about 27gal. of syrup. Bare in mind that the sap in both evaporators, had already boiled a lot of H2O off prior to today fireing. Once the small evaporator brought a nice first batch, about 15gal., we tended the fire and brought off the second and last smaller batch of syrup. After the first batch came off we opened the valves from the storage tanks to allow the well water to chase the sap thru the pans, and we were done for the 2015 season. I have a bit of a meloncoly feeling tonight. My dad and grandad had been makeing syrup in this saphouse years before I was born, and as far as I can remember back, I was a part of this tradition. Three years back my dad died at 91yrs. His last trip from the house was with me to spend some time with us , his brother, me, and two younger generations of cousins who are the reason we keep going. The sap house has had some renovations with several additions which my dad and uncles did to acomidate larger evaporators, and the woodshed. I could rattle on for pages about my spring memories from childhood to present makeing syrup. Tonight, I said to myself, "Self" you did it another year!! With my current health issues,I hope I will be here on YT to post of our family's 2016 maple syrup production. The pics of the back lighted clouds from the setting sun say a lot in my mind. I think the pics. are a fitting end to this season, and the hope that mother nature will bless us with this years new growing season. One season fades away, like the setting sun, and another arives. Pics. are from my back yard of the family farm tonight. Loren, the Acg.
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