Tapped ten maples today. Now we'll see if the sap flows. What's needed are nights below freezing and warmer days. Last night (and tonight's forecast too) it never dropped below freezing. Global weirding? Are you familiar with that concept? If not, check out Tom Friedman (he coined the phrase). Definitely makes sense to me. At any rate, after tomorrow we should be into some good sap production conditions.

My mother was wondering if the maple syrup we produce will be like the $64 tomato; but there's no danger of that since the total investment was $12. Speaking of Mom, we had some good laughs with her yesterday, and when you hear the story you'll understand why I'm sorry there's no photos.

I'm always giving her heck for not having a couch. Well yesterday she bought one at her favorite junk shop. Jake and I went to pick it up, got it in the front door of the house but then could not get it through the apartment door. So there it was, stuck in the entryway. Cara and Jessie were upstairs, trapped. I drove over to Greg's to see if he may be able to figure something out. He did. He removed a window--the whole thing-- and we shoved it through. Mom then treated us all to pizza. So, we had a nice meal (frugal for us!) and Lucy has improved her accommodations.