Moments in Vermont

Exactly 1 week ago, I left home to visit Vermont to go maple syrup-ing with Zelda and her family. Here are some funny pics. 

Me and Yessa being bucketheads.

To get maple sap (which is boiled into maple syrup), you drill a hole into a maple tree. Clean out the hole with a small twig. Insert your tap into the hole, and hammer it in. 

Hopefully, your spile will start dripping sap. If it does, hook on the bucket. Here's a tree that's fully set up. 

From this link

The sap will drip into the bucket, and the next day you'll have a bucket partly full of maple sap!

The sap also tastes pretty good by itself, straight from the bucket--like water at first, but with a sweet aftertaste. Which leads me to this picture.

Yum yum yum.

Stay tuned...I'll probably be writing more about Vermont in separate posts.

P.S. Miss Jennie took the pix of me.