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Has anyone tried making birch syrup?

Got to try my hand at it once with an old timer. Boil down ratio was almost 100 to 1. Used part of it to make a wicked wine too.

It's part of the loop for many. Once you've got the family thing going on, personal play time takes a back seat.

I've had the good fortune to have seen him play many a time, The Horseshoe, the Forum, the Sault. He was a fun man to listen to. Every show a party.

Won't find many who could ever fit the mold or fill his boots.

They've made a lot of changes to various formats. Most annoying are the continuous stream of adds that follow each upload. They also removed the bulk upload that allowed a group a pics at once.

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In order to have a good season, temperature is key. The warmer temps can be good and bad. It gers the sap flowing, but if the night temps stay above zero, the season shortens and the sap gets dark fast. Optimum conditions are for the night temps to drop below zero each night, interrupt sap flow, and delay budding.

I have always wanted to make a fish soup, never had one, how is it?

 

What fish makes the best soup?

Love your office. :-)

Felt so good to finally hook up with a buddy for a well deserved day of fishing. No hospitals, clinics, waiting rooms or errands for one and all. Just 2 Grumps, a lot of ice and some misguided fish.

Bill's catch.

My catch

Now the puppy and I can have our weekly fish brekkie.

Shore ice should be in pretty poor shape, down here in Niagara, by the weekend

3 or 4 times a week for me and the puppy. One serving eack week is breakfast.

One big thick pot of kalat moujakka/fish head soup every month..

Predominant feed comes from panfish

Used to run a small evaporator years back. Gave it to a friend some years back when the woodlot was bulldozed for a subdivision.

40 gallons sap boils down to 1 gallon syrup. We ran the evaporator over a wood fired brick pit. Took roughly 14 hours to get it thick enough, but it was a great all day activity. Start up the boil and drip, then go draw fresh sap, outdoor cookouts, taffy pulls. I like my syrup as a light amber grade. The later in the season you draw sap, the darker the syrup gets.

Got hit with the same Trojan last month. Seems the Mrs opened a blank email called iedive. It managed to bypass my AV software.

I would think any time from now, depending on location and the kind of winter we've had this year.

Please pull REIMER!!!

Now these boys know how to grow a beard. Long live Rednecks

The Sargasso sea in the middle of the Atlantic is now a floating garbage dump that we have known about for decades.

There are beaches, throughout the world, covered in plastics to a depth of over a foot.

Despite knowing all this there has been no real effort to deal with the complex trash problem. Midway is only another symptom.

Truth is the problem will not go away because no one wants to foot the bill.

Sad, but it's always been an accepted hardship for that way of life. I am thankful it does not happen often any more.

My prayers go out to the families and community.

Some quality fish there.

Those are just beautiful

It comes under Transport Canada. Applications available at most Service Canada offices. In the past it was free, don't know if it still is.

I had kinda hoped to do a little fishing , or check out the fishing show, this weekend. As always, if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.

Son and daughter were moving into a new place this weekend. All was planned, arranged, etc.... Daughter winds up back in hospital for treatment.. Being a stubborn child ( don't know where she gets it ), she never let on she was in difficulties again. Got a message on moving day that she had been admitted the day before.

Needless to say, all was chaos, much of the daughter's stuff had not been packed yet. 10 pm Friday night, and 100+ round trips on 4 flights of steps we vacate the old apartment. At the other end , the young fellas just piled everything into the middle of her bedroom and the kitchen.

Yesterday was used to recover from overdoing things and the 2 spills. Apparently I'm not supposed to be climbing all them stairs.

Today was the start of sorting out my daughters furniture and things, a mercy run to the hospital with some necessities, and 5 loads of the daughter's laundry. Tommorrow I'll tackle some more of the mountain and some repairs. The Mrs tries to help, but the right arm is tied to a sling for the next 6 weeks to recover from surgery. What else could go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgx3TCnIH80

If you guys are looking for tackle deals I suggest you go to your local tackle swaps. I just went to one in London last weekend and there were some great deals to be had on both used and new baits, as well as rods and reels. I believe there is one coming up in April in Hamilton.

Also one in Ft Erie march 10th

40 years later this still sounds great.

Computer's clean, just had it in and upgraded my AV, the glich only happens here @ OFC.

We'll see what clearing the cookies does.

Over the past 2 weeks, with increasing frequency, have been getting "404 webpage not found" messages when opening some of the topics in general discussion. Newest is Lew's mini rant.