On the first of April, we had two friends over to play since there was no school. We took field trips to watch maple syrup being made and to bottle feed an adorable lamb. We came back home to make an April Fool’s trick for Jon and my friend Emily.
Running to a maple tree to see the sap running at our friends’ sugarbush.
Tasting the sap straight from the trees – yum!
The sap goes into this big tank and is eventually moved to the evaporator pan where it gets boiled down into syrup.
Sylvia is tasting the maple foam – it tastes like a maple marshmallow! You can see the evaporator in the background.
Our friends raise sheep on their beautiful land near the river. They have a guard alpaca to keep the coyotes away.
The girls got to bottle feed Blackberry. Her mom abandoned her shortly after she was born.
- Blackberry was certainly adorable and loved the girls and all their attention!
Potato candies! We fooled Jon and Emily into thinking they were potatoes and then taking a sweet surprise of a bite!
SylLy Acres 
April 14, 2013 at 12:10 pm
Happy Days!