Time to tap!

Temps are rising, so it looks like I'll be tapping the four maple trees in my front yard this weekend, for my first-ever attempt at making my own maple syrup.

In other news, I feel like this has been a week of big mistakes here at the homestead. From getting my dad's van and a huge trailer full of wood stuck in the snow in my back lot, to finding all but one of the rain barrels I made last year broken and mangled by ice, to stopping up my bathtub drain by degreasing a bunch of old cast iron skillets in it, we're running real strong on hindsight here lately.

Hopefully I'll only be making these mistakes once...