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As of now, the birds are grateful the feeders are kept full. The dogs are grateful for a break from sub-zero temperatures. The dog walker is grateful the sun is shining. We all hope, as much as dogs and birds hope, that Friday's forecast of more snow brings but a dusting. Through today, the Winter Severity Index is only in the Moderate Range. That certainly seems to put a damper on the bragging rights, but we were living here during the Winter of 1983-1984, so our bragging rights are forever established. We lived through the Winter of Hoth on Earth!
tapping the sugar bush in a couple of weeks?
Photo by J. Harrington
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As of this weekend, two kinds of Spring activities start, one of them regardless of the weather. We start focusing on organizing our fishing gear and planning some trips. We also will begin working on organizing our information for filing tax returns. Although, if we get enough more snow that more snow blowing is required, tax preparation efforts will get deferred. We've learned to limit, as much as we can, the major sources of pain we have to cope with at any one time.
Goddess of Maple at Evening
She breathed a chill that slowed the sap inside the phloem, stood perfectly still inside the dark, then walked to a field where the distance crooned in a small blue voice how close it is, how the gravity of sky pulls you up like steam from the arch. She sang along until the silence soloed in a northern wind, then headed back to the sugar stand and drank from a maple to thin her blood with the spirit of sap. To quicken its pace to the speed of sound then hear it boom inside her heart. To quicken her mind to the speed of light with another suck from the flooded tap.
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