Tap in ...

I have been busy this past week with several adventures, including a talk about the planets we have discovered in our solar system (any interest and I could blog some points of view).
Let me begin with the tapping of sugar maples at Shaw's sugar bush, south of Orillia and East off #11 on Line 14.

The blue lines are in place but the ends are not yet tapped into the sugar maples:

And now to drill a hole for this year:

The wood core ought to look like this - and it does!

And then the long flow to the distillary!

And the proof?

Meanwhile, back at Lake of Bays ....

W O B

A Bear on the camp site

Last August while camping at Lake of Two Rivers - while my camera was broken - we heard of the following incident. Some campers were preparing breakfast when a bear jumped on the picnic table and started eating their pancakes.

The bear was marked and taken away,

And the moral of this is:

I am indebted to Rory for making me aware of this wisdom.

W O B

The Coffee Urn or yearn!

I like a cup of good coffee.
One sees coffee urns like this one often:

Not really much to say about it.
I watched the lady stir:

Still it did not seem so unusual.
Then I saw it being filled:

Ummmm ??

And then it was not quite coffee!

Delicious, Thank you.

So when Tom worked until 1am this morning he deserved a good breakfast.
And for me: who does nothing, I eat and drink well - wob