This year has been a weird one for maple syrup. It got too hot too quickly, we got inundated with sap only to have both ways to do the first boil fail on us in ways we hadn't planned for (thought one backup was good enough, and it wasn't), and now we're getting to the end of the sap season (seeing the quality change like it does when it's too warm for too long). All I've finished so far is this: 2 quarts and a pint. We have 20 gallons of sap still to boil down and maybe a bit more from one or two trees, but I don't see us getting as much as last year or as much as we'd hoped for.
This is just what happens in homesteading, let alone when homesteading while disabled. Today, my fibromyalgia and FND have been hitting hard, so the idea of boiling down all that sap in the rain (the reason why I hurt and my tremors are bad today) is not a good one. This might be all the syrup we get this year, and if that's the case, we will have to buy more locally (we use over a gallon a year, and I wanted to make maple sugar, too) like we used to. Oh well, that's just the way it goes sometimes. This batch is extra good, though, with a buttery finish that is quite tasty. We're very happy with it and will try to get one more batch boiled up tomorrow and see what happens.
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