I've made such good progress in the bucking operation that it's time to fell some more trees. Hopefully we'll have a two year supply so that we can then focus on widening the trail and picking a new site for the next cut. Supposedly new growth takes hold in five years, at which point you can do some thinning in the hopes of stimulating more robust trees. We'll see...

In the meantime, we're going to see if Machias Hardware sells taps so that we can try our hand at maple syrup production. It's a bit of a rush job, I suppose, but it seems like a relatively simple affair--capture the sap then boil it down to syrup (famous last words!) If we can't get the taps locally we'll have to order them on-line and probably wait until next year.