Sam_MaineBottles
Well-Known Member
Hi All -
During this time of year I develop a particular interest in a certain type of bottle, one that is modern, very common and that has no value when empty. It's your everyday salad dressing bottle. I recycle these to hold the pure Maine maple syrup that I make during March. This has been a late season, about two weeks behind schedule. The sap has been flowing fairly steadily but it doesn't look to be a great year. I usually make 8-10 gallons of syrup but I'm guessing that it will only total around five gallons this season - enough for home use anyways. There's a lot of work in making maple syrup (40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup) but I enjoy it, to me it's one of the first real signs of the coming of spring.
Later - Sam
During this time of year I develop a particular interest in a certain type of bottle, one that is modern, very common and that has no value when empty. It's your everyday salad dressing bottle. I recycle these to hold the pure Maine maple syrup that I make during March. This has been a late season, about two weeks behind schedule. The sap has been flowing fairly steadily but it doesn't look to be a great year. I usually make 8-10 gallons of syrup but I'm guessing that it will only total around five gallons this season - enough for home use anyways. There's a lot of work in making maple syrup (40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup) but I enjoy it, to me it's one of the first real signs of the coming of spring.
Later - Sam