“M’m! M’m! Good!” ☺️ My Actifit Report Card: January 16 2025
“M’m! M’m! Good!” 🤗
When you think Maple Syrup, you usually think of Vermont!😊
In fact together Vermont, New York, and Maine, produce over 80 percent of this delicious syrup in the United States!☺️
Texas will tell you everything is “Big” in Oil Country, but the Pacific Northwest, and onward North into Canada, is home to the “Big Leaf Maple”!☺️
With leaves that can grow to 12 inches wide, these Maple trees produce some of the most Golden delicious Maple Syrup!🤗
I discovered on my hike today, that Keith my neighbor, has started “tapping” some of the Maple trees along our hiking trails!
It’s been an odd year, so I’m not sure if Keith will harvest much sap……🙄
It takes freezing nights, and warmer days, for the sap to start rising!
See that five gallons bucket in the fifth photo?
It takes 40 gallons of sap, to be able to boil away the water, and then produce one gallon of Maple syrup!🙄
Sometimes less than a gallon of syrup!😮
With only the last three or four nights below freezing for the entire winter, maple syrup might be a bit challenging this year!🙄
“Keith, when you start boiling sap, if you need a taste tester, I’ll bring up some pancakes, and check and see if your Maple Syrup is any good Lol!”😇
“Suddenly Liz, I’m feeling hungry Lol!”🥰
Till tomorrow Silvertop Mike 😊
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'Tis a tasty time of year for sure! I would like to try again sometime, but when it's a bit easier than it would be right now.
Yep....not much of a Winter Liz!🙄
Looks like the real deal.....Canadian Maple syrup!!🤗👍😀
I have to stick with Mrs Butterworths Stevia sweetened version.
Until someone can create a hybrid Maple Tree with a Stevia plant.
I didn’t know Mrs. Butterworth had a Stevia version!👍😊
I grew up with the high calorie version of Mrs. Butterworth YUM!🤗😊
Wow, tapping maple trees?! That's an unexpected discovery on a hiking trail! Despite the odd year, it sounds quite fascinating. The process of collecting 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup is impressive! 🍁 With the inconsistent freezing nights this winter, it might indeed be challenging for Keith to get much syrup. Fingers crossed for more freezing nights to help with the sap flow. 🌡️
It's so interesting how natural processes depend on specific weather conditions, @silvertop!
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I will be hiking this trail often @silversaver888, and I will let you know how the syrup collection goes, maybe I can get a few good close-up photos!!😇👍😀
Wow I never knew that you can make maple syrup in WA!
I just discovered this myself several years ago. We actually bought the taps and made maple syrup one year. It’s delicious, It’s also a lot of work…Lol!😅
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I will try to taste it one day.
You would love it my friend!👍🤗
Beautiful pictures. 40 gallons of sap for one gallon of syrup, that's a whole lot boiling time! Nice mileage again yesterday, over 8 miles. Weather must be cooperating!