Hi Gang, These are three pictures of some fun things we did this past week. The first two were taken just north of Crogan, NY in the maple sugar producing area. On P-day we drove there to see the process first hand. It's the peak of the season now. It was a Mom and Pop operation which involved the whole family. The cabin is called a sugar hut. The maple sap is boiled over a wood burning furnace to concentrate it. It takes 40 gals of sap to make 1 gal of maple syrup. The syrup is then filtered and packaged. It sells for about $35 a gal, $40-50 in the stores. The grove of maple trees that are tapped is call a sugar bush. Some of the trees are tapped with the old fashioned buckets as seen in the picture with Mom. Most of the trees in this operation 3900 were tapped into a network of plastic pipes and pumped into the sugar hut. It was a quite simple process, which lasts for about 6 weeks in early spring. The rest of the year the family is into logging. It is a big thing up here, pure amber maple syrup is worth its weight in gold. The last picture is of the Mormon handy man fixing a hole in the wall with sheet rock. The Gonzales twins were helping. their father is in Iraq as a flight engineer on a Chinock helocopter. The family lives out in the sticks and are inactive. The parents went to Orem HS together and were raised in the church. The work goes well here we are kept very busy with a lot of different things. It's like one big turn around, people come people go. The Lord keeps the wards in tact and functioning somehow. We feel very blessed just to observe the process and be a small part of it. We feel bad about missing the baptism of Seth and Patton and were certainly thinking about you all then. We love this work and the people we are able to serve. What a blessing it has been in our lives. Take care and keep the home fires burning.
Hi Gang, These are three pictures of some fun things we did this past week. The first two were taken just north of Crogan, NY in the maple sugar producing area. On P-day we drove there to see the process first hand. It's the peak of the season now. It was a Mom and Pop operation which involved the whole family. The cabin is called a sugar hut. The maple sap is boiled over a wood burning furnace to concentrate it. It takes 40 gals of sap to make 1 gal of maple syrup. The syrup is then filtered and packaged. It sells for about $35 a gal, $40-50 in the stores. The grove of maple trees that are tapped is call a sugar bush. Some of the trees are tapped with the old fashioned buckets as seen in the picture with Mom. Most of the trees in this operation 3900 were tapped into a network of plastic pipes and pumped into the sugar hut. It was a quite simple process, which lasts for about 6 weeks in early spring. The rest of the year the family is into logging. It is a big thing up here, pure amber maple syrup is worth its weight in gold. The last picture is of the Mormon handy man fixing a hole in the wall with sheet rock. The Gonzales twins were helping. their father is in Iraq as a flight engineer on a Chinock helocopter. The family lives out in the sticks and are inactive. The parents went to Orem HS together and were raised in the church. The work goes well here we are kept very busy with a lot of different things. It's like one big turn around, people come people go. The Lord keeps the wards in tact and functioning somehow. We feel very blessed just to observe the process and be a small part of it. We feel bad about missing the baptism of Seth and Patton and were certainly thinking about you all then. We love this work and the people we are able to serve. What a blessing it has been in our lives. Take care and keep the home fires burning. 
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