Sugar bush visit leads to foal

The blue barn is a landmark!

Here is Caitlin, with Isabelle on her back,
and Josephine, last year.

We made our pilgrimage across the road to the sugar bush. On the way we were distracted.
We stopped at the blue barn.

Josephine had a bit of a word with him!

Penny Pig was quite exhausted.
She had a litter last year.
Tressa said they had to get the piglets to her every hour, otherwise Penny could roll over them. Later, they feed longer apart.

Today there were several visitors to her sugar bush. It's hard work being Ms. Greeter beside the blue barn!

But THIS year's news:
The miniature pony had a foal! How delightful!

He was born at the end of February. Soft fuzzy, with delicate little whinny!

Twas a great visit.
Too bad the syrup season was awful this year.

It bounces around the paddock.

Momma and baby!

Have you ever??!!

What a fuzz ball of joy!

One of their machines!

Don't you love REAL syrup!

Visit other worlds!

Sugar shack!

It's that season in Ontario. The sugar has been running, and running well.

Our neighbours have 35 acres, with 2000 taps. They've had the school kids, day care centre kids, friends in, with lots of great tasting treats.

We went for a visit.

They put the spigots on the south side of the tree, as they know sap runs better there.

Tressa let Jofee pet the Easter Bunny!

The sap began to run when the daytime temperature hit 4 C., and ran through the night. Oliver Family sugar shack has a Reverse Osmosis machine, and this reduces boiling time by half. They have a pump to reduce gathering time, with pipe 40' up in the air, over 360' with nine points of tensions. They have cold storage, a vacuum pump room, and keen family to keep things going while the sap runs.

A delightful place to visit.


We came home, checked out Oliver's antics here. See him just at the top of the gully.
Josephine parked the wagon for us!