A new adventure

I should probably add the word 'finally' to the title because we've been trying to do this for a while. Can you guess what's happening?

After years of thinking about it and getting supplies ordered (where they sat in our utility room last year), we are finally tapping our maple trees. Can you see the little drop of sap hanging off the end of the tap?

We opted to not have hanging buckets but instead use tubing that runs down onto covered buckets.

We're only tapping three trees this year as we figure out how we're going to make this work. We'll probably end up with just a couple ounces of maple syrup by the end.

The other reason we're starting small is that these are all silver maples, not sugar maples. We know the syrup will taste a little different and we want to be sure we like it before we enlarge the endeavor. But I'm excited to be finally trying this regardless.