Spring has finally arrived!

This week up here in the frozen north country, spring finally came!  We had temps in the upper 60's, the snow is melting, and life is starting to become normal again.  We are finished with the maple syrup, as the sap is no longer running.  (Maple sap needs freezing overnight temps, and daytime temps above freezing).  For the past few nights, it never got to freezing.   We are all MORE than ready for good weather!  Everyone is done with winter.  Really done.  We ended up with about 4 gallons of finished syrup and put into pints that is about 32 pints of syrup. 

Here is a photo of our Belgian horse Dick wandering around the yard looking for some green grass to eat and just enjoying the fact that there is less snow.  As you can see, the driveway isn't as muddy, so I can park my little car by the house now.  We just have small areas of snow here and there.  Later this week, I will post an article about our new bees.  Friday we are going to go and pick up some nucs (bees plus a queen plus brood).   The birds are all back, singing, my farm cats are all over the place hunting, and we even have a couple new kittens.   I don't want to disturb Mama Cat just yet, but I will post photos of new kittens later on.

Our Belgian horse Dick walking in the yard