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| Pippa |
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| Pearl |
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| Crocuses in front of the farmhouse |
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| Cow jawbone found by maple trees |
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| Removing a small tap from a tree that had stopped flowing |
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| Drilling a bigger hole to renew the tap hole |
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| Installing the new tap |
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| Put the bag back on the new tap |
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| Watching for the first drop |
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| Here it comes! |
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| Time to pour the sap into the buckets |
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| Collecting Sap |
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| Collecting sap |
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| Now time to boil the sap... and boil it more....and boil it more |
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| Until we filter it |
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| And bottle it - today's syrup is darker than the first batch! |
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| Time for a fire |
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| Roasting sticks |
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| Hepatica... the first woodland wildflower of the year |
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| Showing off our candles |
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| Breakfast |
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| Pancakes! |
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| Clean-up |
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| Getting ready to go birdwatching |
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| In the bird blind |
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| The goldfinches |
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| LLarry the llama |
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| Dorothy |
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| Animal Chores |
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| Collecting eggs |
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| Free time in the red barn |
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