Vicissitudes

Last weekend I packed up the family and headed out to maple country.  That’s almost anywhere around here but it seems that you have to drive 45+ minutes to get to a Maple Syrup farm (?).  So I didn’t actually pack up and leave, we had to stop for Tim Horton’s first, and gas, and…  Lucky me, I forgot my camera but did happen to have my camera phone!  I got one decent photo of what my son called “Miracle Land”.  Google Maps took us down (Yes down a good steep hill) a dirt road, filled with ice and snow.  Half way down we stopped because the view was amazing (no you cannot see because I didn’t have my camera).  I did get this one shot.  That’s the road, snow clinging to the trees, it was quite amazing.

The kids loved it.  They (and I) learned how maple syrup is extracted, processed and enjoyed.  98% water, that’s a lot of boiling needed.  But it’s worth it.  So what if they use reverse osmosis to extract 50% of the water out before they boil it.  We bought almost $100 in maple products, cotton candy, hard candy, maple cream, and syrup!  The smell there was amazing.  They setup a fire with a huge boiling “pot” (more of a rectangle thing) so you could smell the smoky wood fire and the maple syrup boiling off.  In that they put hot dogs, eggs (hard boiled) and other such things.  I didn’t have cash so I couldn’t get any.  We took a tractor ride up the mountain where they explained the tapping process (no buckets anymore, it’s all piping).  We will make this a yearly thing.

This is the farm we went to www.merlemaple.com.  You can find all the other places here at www.mapleweekend.com

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