Is it Spring already?

Maple Sugaring Time

We’ve had a really warm March so far and maple sap began running a few weeks ago. We have a strand of Sugar Maples out our door and decided to get in on the action. We collected some taps, 8 empty water jugs and got the good ole auger out to tap 8 trees. Convention dictates that each tree will gives us a 8 gallons of sap which =’s a quart of Maple Syrup so we are looking on filling 8 1qt apple cider vinegar bottles

I cut an opening in each jug in order to hang it on the tap.

Here are a couple of our trees with the taps set and the jugs hanging. We hit 60 degrees two days ago and collected 1/2 gallon from each tree!

Ben & Jerry’s Winter Carnival

One of the benefits of living where we do is that the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory is half and hour away. They had a Winter Carnival last weekend with free tours so we decided to check it out, hoping for some samples. There were lots of local business represented and some nice ice sculptures.

And there were samples, samples of their new flavors, their new Greek frozen yogurt and the tour concluded with yet another sample and we were not limited to one. I think Colleen had 6.

And to top it off there was a scavenger hunt following clues to collect stamps to be redeemed for a prize which turned out to be a free ice cream cone, and a double cone at that. Needless to say we had our fill of Ben & Jerry’s! YUM!

Around the Home

Jakobi is a big help making pizza; she loves to knead the dough!

Each Day we look up the Sabian Symbol for the degree of the zodiac the sun is transiting and then draw the image described. Part of our cyclical awareness homeschool studies! The chalkboard is my interpretation…

..and this is Ambiana’s! The words say ‘BIG IDEA’

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