March 30, 2018 - Friday
13 degrees/clear skies/calm winds
Pentoga Road

It's been a long time since we've had a good old fashioned snow storm. Of all weekends, why now? We've had all winter for it to snow and Mother Nature chooses Easter weekend? Other than Thanksgiving and Christmas, could the timing be any worse? 

We're to head over to Foster City tomorrow to celebrate with the Milligans. Unless the wind is howling, and it appears as though it could be, we'll try to make it in four wheel drive. Of course, simply getting off of Pentoga Road, one of the last to be plowed, is in question. Only time will tell.

Sargie was off Thursday and we had a fairly quiet day. I took a quick ride around the maple woods first thing in the morning and was surprised to find a few full bags of sap. The temperature was much cooler than the day before and hadn't risen enough to cause the sap to run, or so I thought. I filled a five gallon bucket and thought I'd be finished with the maple business until the temperatures warmed again.



Macrea was working in town so we met him for lunch. We had a good visit and I enjoyed a great burger.

We were about to pull into the drive when Sargie and I noticed the bags hanging alongside the road looked rather full. Could it be? The wind was blowing and it was chilly. I guess no one told the trees conditions weren't good for sending sap through the spouts and into our bags.  In the end, we collected almost forty gallons for the day, another gallon of syrup closer to our goal.

I worked off and on throughout the day on the big Easter egg that I turned last week. All the cracks have been sealed and sanded and now it's time to get busy. It appears a good part of today will be spent fashioning something or the other from the egg.



Thankfully, Sargie works early today. The storm isn't due to arrive until later tonight. We're supposed to meet Tom and Melinda for a Friday night fish fry in Florence, but we'll wait and see what the weather is doing. It might be best to get Sargie home safe and sound and worry about eating fish some other time.

Me? I'm going for my usual walk this morning then I hope to work on the strawberry bed and get the frame finished. It'll be at least another month before I can plant any strawberries, but I'd like to get the lumber that's sitting on the floor of the barn out of the way and be able to cross this project off my growing list.

It's time to get Sargie up for the day, get her lunch packed, and breakfast ready.

After all, a man's work is never done.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...