During my morning visit to the sugar bush there was very little sap flowing through the tubing and even less puddled up in the collection tanks. Usually, once the sap started flowing I wouldn’t have been happy for Mother Nature to put a halt on production. But with most of the day yesterday spent running around looking into the missing money I could use all the help I could get catching up at the sugarhouse. Fortunately, not only had Loden been willing to fill in for me, the whole process of sugar making had become more streamlined with the modernizations I had convinced the family to install. For instance, just in time for the season we had added an automatic bottler and a filter press to the production process. Instead of hand-filling jugs with a well-balanced funnel or skimming impurities from the boiling sap with a mesh strainer we now had well-oiled machines to act as extra pairs of hands. Even Grampa had admitted the changes were a good idea.
What do You think about A Sticky Situation (2015)?
