Nah, he likes building the BIG FIRE and cooking it down. He has a special pan now with ‘chambers’ and it holds two gallons of sap at a time.
You can BUY Maple Syrup? *SMIRK* Who knew? ;)
Neither of us are beer drinkers. And, sadly, you can now FREELY buy Margarine in Wisconsin and nobody bats an eye!
I remember trips from Milwaukee to (an undisclosed location) in Illinois with Mom and Grandma to buy Margarine on the sly. If I was a good girl (and stayed quietly in the trunk there and back, LOL!) I got to stir the yellow powder into the goop to make it LOOK like butter...in case the cops showed up to inspect our fridge! ;)
I learned early that you can usually ‘get around’ any silly law Mother Government throws at you thanks to ‘Grand-Ma Barker’ and her daughter. ;) Good Times!
Mon Dieu! Quelle Horror! You are the Dairy state! More cows than People! (More registered voters than population!)
"I remember trips from Milwaukee to (an undisclosed location) in Illinois..."
My father would drive us up to Salem Wisconsin to buy Kaukauna Club Cheese in ceramic crocks and fresh Sheboygan brats! (Both better tasting than margarine!)
Well, this winter when the power goes out and you need to use the fireplace gently remind him that he used 1/2 a cord of wood to reduce to 3 pints of maple syrup you used up by November on your Saturday Buckwheat pancakes! (Good pancakes!) :)