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Yardening. Stuff is starting to take off.
First homemade maple syrup is done. It's light and has a delicious butterscotch flavor, not like store bought syrup at all. I got just over one pint from about five gallons of sap.
I did the bulk of the boil outside on James then brought it inside and finished on the stove. Filtered and bottled in a pint jar, the leftover went into a little jar in the fridge.
Yardening
Got a lot of stuff leafing out, setting flowers, and popping up. These warm temps are really getting stuff going. Hopefully the freeze that's coming up won't do too much damage.
Yardening
There was an explosion of growth while I was gone. I set up the last two trellises (one arch and one tomato set), put the potatoes in, and had to modify my plant shelf inside to accommodate my insane tomatoes.
I went to a couple maple syrup supply stores to get some bottles and a few things to modify James, one of them had these really nifty half leaf bottles. I got a case of the small bottles to keep a little bit of each boil to track the color as the season progresses.
There's a variety of bottle styles available, I got regular syrup bottles for most of the syrup. For specialty bottles I usually see full leaf, but I really liked the half leaf.
Since I can't ever just dip my toes into a hobby... Step one of my next project complete.
This barrel stove will eventually be a sap evaporator. Once the paint is fully burnt and brushed off I'm going to coat it with high heat paint and cut two big holes in the top for a pair of large pans that will boil and concentrate maple sap into maple syrup. Today's burn was just a test to see if I did it right. I'm going to put it up on blocks to get it away from the grass once I start boiling sap.
This was actually my second attempt (and barrel) at building a diy evaporator. The first one was Thomas the tar fueled jet train.
Will I ever have enough hobbies?
No.