Last Saturday we headed up to the home site.
I took pictures,
Roscoe explored,
and Mickey tapped maple trees.
For each tap, he drilled a hole to the proper depth, indicated by a piece of tape he had wrapped around the drill bit.
He then used the flat end of an ax to gently insert the spile [tap].
We hung a total of fourteen buckets,
and headed home.
We returned on Tuesday afternoon, after UPS delivered the remainder of our supplies.
We now had a total of twenty buckets ready to collect sap.
We came up again later that week to check the progress.
We were quite excited to see (and taste) our buckets beginning to fill with a not-quite-clear, mildly sweet liquid!
Mickey also fit the lids onto the buckets.
Our route to check the taps is not very long at all. We didn't even have to venture into the woods for this year's twenty taps.
The sap has begun to run!
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