After taking the boys to school, Heather and I began our day by checking the sap buckets, even though it was only 27 degrees with no chance of the sap running until it warmed up later on. We had to do it anyway. Heather had to check every single bucket. Wayne had already been out at 7:30 a.m. to check the buckets before going to school.
Too frozen.
Does this girl know how to have her picture taken or what?
Taking a peek.
Back at the ranch, we made St. Patrick's Day Cookies.
We don't have a shamrock cookie cutter so we used a small heart shape.
It worked great.
When the boys came home, they went straight out to check the buckets and then came in to decorate cookies.
Pretty good.
Oh, what a wonderful blog entry. I can just feel the kids excitement over the sap buckets! I do agree that the picture of Heather with the sap bucket is adorable!
ReplyDeleteHow clever of you to use the heart-shaped cookie cutter for shamrock cookies. I couldn't get over how nicely the kids decorated them.
What a fun day at your house today!!
P. S. This weekend is Maple Sugar weekend in NH when all the sugar houses are open to the public. Anna comes home special for it every year. There are three sugar houses in New Boston that are open and we like to go to all three of them!
Looks like so much fun! We did boil some in Richmond last Saturday, but we won't do it again until the 25-26. I love the cookies - using the heart cutter was a great idea!
ReplyDeleteYummy, those cookies look good! Darlene, you are such a good mother!! I loved the pic of the sap frozen mid stream!! I could see that they had been over to gather at Drew Place last night.
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