OK, I have to interrupt the history lesson here to report on the current season. Due to a lack of time the last weekend in January we decided to hold off tapping until the first weekend in February.
We put together a bunch of bag holders and bags and headed to the woods with the three smaller boys for help...as Michael says: when it comes to help one boy is worth one boy; two boys are worth half a boy and three boys are no help at all. That's not entirely true, but we weren't able to move quite as fast as if it had just been the two of us. Andrew fell out of the back of the wagon almost onto his head but didn't seem too bothered by that.
By lunch time we had lost track of how many taps we had put in, so after lunch we put in all but the last seven. Since we didn't know how many we started with that only told us we had seven more to put out. Five of those go on the neighbor to the west, we'll do those later. The other two we can put in a couple of trees that are large enough to take an additional tap but only have one right now.
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