I just got in from the sugarhouse. We are right at two thirds of last year's crop now. Almost all my wood is gone, and we are cutting dead stubs to mix with the last of the dry wood. Cut wood in the morning, boil in the afternoon and evening. My father always said if he didn't have dry wood, he didn't want to boil, I agree.
We did have some excitement Monday night. The wind was pretty strong,and sparks from the smokestack set fire to a dead branch about a hundred feet behind the sugarhouse. Of course my tractor and wood splitter were parked right under it. The fire department came and put it out, then I backed the tractor and splitter over the pile of wood, then one of the firemen went up a ladder and sawed off the rest of the limb. That whole performance wasted and hour, and I wound up boiling until Midnight to make up for it.
I AM NOT NINETEEN YEARS OLD ANY MORE, a steady diet of twelve hour days is more than I really need. Oh well, it will be over soon, then I can rest a little before haying starts.
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