Homesteading in North Lexington III

Submitted by Bruce Thomas

NORTH LEXINGTON — Sapping is a priority this time of year. Robi and I visited Danny Diamond's Maple Hill Farm.

The sap house was amazing as well as historical. It was interesting, listening to Danny and George Shumaker show us the operation. At Bear Paw Farm we are doing our own Sapping at a much smaller scale. Danny got 4000 gallons of Sap the first day – we got 20 gals.

While down at Van Dusen's a gentleman named Jim Monahan came in and was talking about how they were planning on moving the old Lexington hotel and Post Office across the road. Bruce said “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Our neighbor Eric and his family came up for the weekend, we ended up moving a couple of refrigerators. Unfortunately when we were doing that, I burned a batch of sap. I hate when that happens. A friend of Eric’s set up a camper by their house, lucky nobody got blown away with all the wind we had. Speaking of wind, Robi and I need to walk our fence lines to make sure they are still functional. Last week our pot belly pig found a downed spot in the fence and decided to check out the swamp across the road. He came back home with a little encouragement.

Robi has some chicken eggs in the incubator plus we are getting some chicks Young’s Ace Hardware in Prattsville. Gotta keep the flock rejuvenated.