Winter has been packing on a large amount of excess calendar for the last few years making it fat, cold, and complacent. This trend continued during the beginning of last week and ended suddenly on the weekend.
The snow and cold through Thursday wrapped the sap shack and the aux cooker in a blanket of delay. Tree tapping was planned to be weeks away and firing the collected sap a few days after that.
Winter's finished, but there are still small pockets of snowy resistance that need to be crushed. The most stubborn Winter remnant is the 20 inches of ice covering Lake Lucerne. Optimists are predicting an ice free lake by Easter and the same for golf. Between collecting hundreds of gallons of sap and night, we'll try to measure the ice thickness and post the results.
-Nemo, among other things, dances on Winter's grave.
