Never give up! Never Surrender!

After sleeping 19 hours yesterday, i was fed up with being sick. We are all fed up with being sick. So we took our orange juice outside and did springtime things. The mulch with the sticks poking out are our much beleagured berry bushes.

sick

two out of three of us are sick. i am holding out, but it isn't pretty. you will be spared pictures, for now.

three days of rain

It has been raining solidly for three days, and entertainment is scarce on the ground. our front yard is under three inches of water and the soil is so saturated i fear i will never plant anything. my perception of New England weather in entirely different this year with the garden in the works.

MAPLE SUNDAY!

delicious! the annual celebration of the sugaring season. we go to my favorite local sugar shack for maple candy, maple syrup, maple creame and the smell of sap cooking down. this year we brought home dark maple syrup (it is more strongly flavored), maple cream and we bought candy. that didn't make it home at all.

it takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup!

Next year, My Guy hopes to tap a few trees for sap to make homebrew.