Saturday, March 29, 2008

-We all went to the sugar bush and got to see how maple syrup has been made over the years, starting with the way Natives made it by placing heated rocks in a trough of sap, to how the pioneers (such as we've been reading about in Laura Ingalls Wilder's books as well as others) made it in giant cast iron kettles over fires to the various ways it's been done in modern times. We got to taste maple sugar, maple taffy made by pouring syrup on snow and pancakes with fresh syrup - mmmm!! The girls also got to saw a log.
-We saw an owl and talked about what owls eat and how they are nocturnal and we are diurnal.
-Muirgen took a walk with me to deliver dinner to friends who just had a baby.
-The girls played.