March 29 – Awe
March is as changeable as February is awful. I might even go so far as to say that it is awe-full. I get tote buckets of sap into the kitchen and boil sap into syrup. Turning sap into syrup? That’s a kind of awesome miracle when you think of it.
I work in the garden or repair the old shed between frozen gales and freezing rain. On a nice day, my boots suck mud, and on a cold one, I skid on frozen puddles.
March is perverse, changeable, and promising by turns.
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I honestly never understood the whole syrup thing. I guess I thought it came right out of the trees! So you boil it and it just turns into syrup? I think it would be fun to try.
Maple is best. I know somw people who do birch. I guess the birchers ake birch beer – which used to be big thing around here years ago but not so much anymore – much superior to root beer.
I used to love birch beer. It seems now most of it tastes just like souped up root beer or something fake.
Yeah, it’s hard to find the real stuff these days.
Its all sugary now, no zip to it!
Making syrup is an awesome miracle to me too.
I think that’s definitely a miracle like how dirt, light and and water turn seeds into food.
Real magic.