Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Pineapple Project 2015 has begun

Tonight I start to see if I can regenerate this pineapple top into a health plant

Only the Best ...

After a birthday meal interrupted by a clogged toilet and a vomiting 4 year old son, Matt stopped by to save the day with GOTY (gift of the year) a cold four pack of Heady Topper! Cheers


Maple Sugaring Summer Street March 2015


My first time tapping the trees at our Summer Street home
 The set-up 7:50am
 getting rid of the ice build up


 starting to boil




 my wing man brought some Heady Topper


 starting the change color


 transferred to smaller


 finished product

Our personal 7 year old chef...

Anna has been watching a lot of cooking shows lately - which is better than some of the other programming on today. Her is her first meal she did all on her own! With only minimal help from Dad

 the prep work - cutting up the asparagus and tomatoes

 boiling the bow tie pasta as the tomatoes and asparagus simmer

 combining the two

getting ready to eat - it was delicious.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Catch up

The past (almost) two years since moving out of Prospect Street have been busy for us, new job for Erika, taking more classes at Wentworth this blog has taken a back seat - a way back seat. I hope to keep this more up to date now.

Friday, March 20, 2015

Getting back in the game...

after a record breaking winter we are trying to transition into Spring. Usually by now , I would have my syrup made but this year with the cold temps the sap didn't start running until late in the season.

One of three of our buckets on our maples...
  collecting the raw sap - needed to fill one of my growlers up
 Anna with a Tupperware full of sap
a frozen sap spout