Vibing for Ukranians to hold, extra checking client networks to prevent bad guys. Work. Spring Cleaning.

So what's up for the weekend?

Making black walnut syrup if I can collect enough sap sat and Sunday
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Making black walnut syrup if I can collect enough sap sat and Sunday
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interesting I've Got 2 Huge ones in my yard. is it worth the effort?

interesting I've Got 2 Huge ones in my yard. is it worth the effort?

It’s a lot of work. It’s like a farm chore thing. Every morning and night I collect the sap and freeze it in 5 gallon buckets. When I get 15 gallons of sap I reduce it down to about 2 1/2 quarts.
My biggest walnut doesn’t provide a lot of sap. In fact it’s one of my poorest producers.

I had no idea what to expect when I started this and I just went for it. My 2 maples provide about as much as my 10 walnuts so with that said, I think if your trees are like mine, you will get a quart if you just bank what you can get. Honestly if you can get one big pancake breakfast out of it, it is worth it. It’s incredibly satisfying.
After typing all of that, things may change in the coming weeks and my walnuts might explode with sap.
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interesting I've Got 2 Huge ones in my yard. is it worth the effort?

Not unless you use a LOT of syrup. I have 15 1/2 acres with some huge sugar maples. I did it once and it's just a lot of work and energy. If you drink the s hit great, but we don't use a quart a year.

We are still tapping here in Vt
Probably won’t run till next weekend
But there’s more than 2 thousand taps and miles of pipeline, so lots to do
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Its like a boat. Better to have a neighbor (that owns the boat) that taps your trees; then you get a free syrup allotment every year :)

Thanks for the response’s I don’t like maple syrup that much LOL , always looking to try things , maybe Bees ! And hope all your trees produce
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Thought I would post what I got out of family phone call with BIL in Poland. (it was all in Polish, so this is what I was told after.)

Really tough cold weather with improving forecast. He lives 30km from border, I assume where refugees are pouring in, and they are pouring in. Pols are doing everything they can to set up, house feed, and even getting the kids in school asap. He made a point that there was a lot of the highly educated who were evacuated... Coal, gasoline, and diesel almost out, but expecting coal delivery to his house Tuesday. Everyone being respectful as to what food to buy, so as to have enough available for refugees. (Imagine that here?!?!) Not as tense as in 1969 though. He knows American and German military there in force, but they are out of sight. In the forests, which are huge... Polish people are preparing, almost expecting it to come. Not good time to be a Russian in Poland, though nothing more was said about that. Shortages they will likely face are potatoes and grain, which had been coming from Ukraine. We are doing a Western Union, which he much appreciated as cash is king.

And an hour later, other BIL tells us he is headed to Poland for work this week. I have drawn my own conclusions about his work...

So clearing snow here, following world events, and just feeling so many things for the many being affected by this madman...

Thanks for the update Nightfighter. May I ask what is or who is "BIL"?
And thank you for contributing to real information on what's going on over there.

aha... brother in law?? duh, on me...

Albeit it’s only through our news sources, it’s astounding to see the Ukrainians rally for their country.
God bless them.

Putin’s grave is already dug.