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Zipper pull, mini strap keychain, key fob

Hand made in the USA

Materials:

high quality cotton fabric reinforced with interfacing to provide strength and durability

swivel clasp hook

grosgrain ribbon

Overall length is 4.5 inches.

The fabric key chain can be tossed in the washer to be cleaned.

Swivel clasp hook makes for a quick way to move it to a different zipper.

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Around the Garden

It has been a busy summer! The garden has been growing and we have been harvesting beans, potatoes & cukes regularly. We are now starting to see some of the summer vegetables and flowers start to develop.

Hopefully the deer will find someone else’s vegetables to eat this year especially since it looks like we are going to get some legitimate tomatoes this year!

The marigolds continue to…

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Maple Walnut Fudge

Last Thursday night Wendy took a stab at using up some of our syrup that we had on hand. Wen found a recipe online at the Maple Trader forums that only had three ingredients. How simple is that!

The recipe called for:

2 cups of Super Awesome Little Creek Maple Farm maple syrup.

1 cup of Heavy Cream

1 cup of Chopped Walnuts

To make the fudge:

Combine the syrup and the cream in a sauce pan and…

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Last Boil of 2015

So it’s hard to believe considering the 60-degree weather we are having today, but a week ago today we still had snow on the ground! We boiled down about 100+ gallons of late season sap with hopes of making our first batch of Grade B Maple Syrup. When we shut down Saturday we had about 7 gallons of Sweet almost syrup that we would take to syrup the following day.

We spent last Sunday reducing…

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Third Boil of 2015

So, I have to jump back to last weekend as I start to catch up with blog posts. We pretty much get to boil sap on the weekends because it’s a whole day affair. So last weekend started like any other only we had tons of sap. Friday night we head to the woods and pump the sap from the holding tank in the sugar bush up to the tank in the car and then we begin the process of draining the 35…

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3rd Time’s The Charm

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. This is despite the fact that we just got another 32 gallons of sap tonight to add to our supply currently buried in the snow. If we get 11 more gallons of sap, which would bring us to 540 gallons of sap collected, between tonight & this weekend we will have collected three times as much sap using the new Shurflo Pump set-up than last year!

So…

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More Bottling We continued bottling tonight and brought our very first batch of sap we made in our first weekend boil to syrup.

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First Bottle of 2015

Not much to report today but we did bottle up our first batch of syrup this season tonight. Ironically this is from sap that we boiled this past weekend, because we have no more cold storage — the fridge was full and the freezer is full of syrup or almost syrup and with the weather warming we needed to bottle a batch. It was also a good time for us to work out the kinks on Daryl Sheets…

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Second Boil of 2015

So, I am playing a little catch up here with the blog. The Shurflo Vacuum pump and main line did better than we had ever expected! More to follow on that in a later post.

So jump back one weekend ago to Saturday the 28th. We had another good run and since the weather was cooperating we brought the kids down to the tank to help us pump the sap out to the car. As you can see there suited up…

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Our First Boil of 2015

Well 16 mostly full buckets is how I started our first boil today. I say mostly full because 5 gallons is almost at the very top. I tend to keep them just below the outside lip which puts them in the neighborhood of 4 gallons. So 64 gallons of sap that needs to be reduced to around 8 gallons or so of sweet.

We got started after lunch, hoping for it to warm up a bit. It did not… I think it…

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Shurflo 4048 Vacuum Pump Set-up

This year we decided to help coerce mother nature a tad and force our Red Maples to run a little more consistently. Having red maples our sap flow tends to be finicky and not every tree runs as consistently as it should. So after doing some reading up last year we discovered that the Pro’s deal with this by putting all their trees under vacuum. These vacuum systems are big bucks ($1,200+)…

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The Start of the 2015 Sugaring Season

The 2015 season started out with snow and lots of it! We spent the better part of two weekends unburying and re-working our existing 5/16” lateral lines in preparation for our new 1/2” main line and vacuum system.

We ran approximately 250’ of 1/2” main line from our driveway to a 35 gallon collection tank at the low point of our sugar bush.

In addition to adding the main line we figured it…

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Potato & Onion Bin - Part 2

Potato & Onion Bin – Part 2

Part two of the Potato & Onion Bin Project, focuses on the doors and getting them installed, you can read about Part 1 here which focuses on the construction of the carcass of the potato & onion bin.

With the size of the doors roughed out on scrap paper and some quick math to figure out the size of the wood door frames I was ready to start cutting some pine boards to width. I set my table saw…

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Potato & Onion Bin – Part 1

Potato & Onion Project

So Wen put her order in for a potato, onion, and garlic bin from the wood shop. Using Pinterest she found some inspiration from a Pin linking back to Ana Whites website, and after a few design review meeting I had my marching orders. We decided on making 3 bins, and figured the opening for each of the bins should be 10” high by 16” wide inside dimensions and the depth…

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Greenhouse - Part 2

Greenhouse – Part 2

Still waiting for the cold weather and snowy pattern we are in to break here in New Hampshire. I was able to successfully disassemble the greenhouseand move it outside pretty easily with the help of Wen and the boys. Reassembly of the greenhouse was straight forward. With the frame complete I needed to add some strapping for my corrugated roof panels because I will be installing the roof…

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Greenhouse - Part 1

Greenhouse – Part 1

Finally have an opportunity to sit down and write a few words. Despite the continuous snow fall that we seem to be getting lately, I am thinking spring. Inspired by searching for greenhouses on Pinterest I came across a greenhouse design PIN that we think would work for us from the Ana-white.com websiteI tweaked the design, a smidge as I always seem to do and started the build a couple of…

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