Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[CntryBoy777]

Sometimes it is good to relax a bit and chit-chat with others of the community....ya can always learn and find out how others do things....

 

[Mike CHS]

Sometimes it is good to relax a bit and chit-chat with others of the community....ya can always learn and find out how others do things....

That is what we did plus we made some good contacts for later.

 

[greybeard]

Wife brought back some maple syrup when she visited her sister in Vt a few years ago. It wasn't bad at all but not something I would care for on a daily basis. I prefer the stronger taste of cane syrup. I'll sometimes use molasses, but not second boiled or the blackstrap (which is residue from the 3rd boiling of the cane juice)

(I do not care for corn syrup at all except maybe dark Karo for pecan pies.)
The stuff they serve at Waffle House and IHOP is not syrup.
I grew up on Blackburn Made Syrup for everything, but IMO, their syrup went downhill when they started adding/using corn syrup as a filler.

 

[farmerjan]

Here in Va, Highland County is known as "Little Switzerland" as the climate and elevation is conducive to the sugar maple. They have the Maple Festival, 60th year this last march. There are at least 5 "maple camps" that collect and process the maple sap into syrup. Our maple syrup runs about $47 to $55 a gallon. I grew up on Log cabin also except when we had gone to Vt to visit family and then brought some real home. Now I wouldn't touch the fake stuff unless I am out and don't have anything else.

 

[Baymule]

Last fall we went to the Syrup Festival in Henderson, Texas. They celebrate making syrup from sugar cane. They had a mule driven crusher mill and a big pan with a wood fire under it to boil the juice down to syrup. We bought 2 cans. I love that stuff. I have many childhood memories of going to my grand parents and feasting on my grandmother's biscuits and sorghum syrup. They bought it locally every fall.

@greybeard use that syrup in your pecan pie!

 

[Mike CHS]

We had to run Teresa in to Urgent Care this afternoon. Nothing really serious but we wanted to make sure since it involved one of her eyes. We had several things going on at the same time and she got in a hurry showing a customer how to set up a milking stand that we were selling. When she opened it up, the stanchion comes up automatically (and pretty fast if you aren't careful) and she cut her eye slightly and the metal slammed into the lower part of her forehead and the top of her left eye which is probably going to be a black eye in the morning. There doesn't seem to be any major damage but we wanted to get a referral from TRICARE for the eye doctor which meant going to an MD first.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Oh my goodness!!....poor lady....sure hope everything turns out well for her.........an ice pack should help the eye to keep from swelling too much.

 

[Mike CHS]

She started with ice right away and a lot of the swelling is down already.

 

[farmerjan]

Sorry to hear that. I hope it didn't scare away the prospective buyers....

 

[Mike CHS]

It all worked out Jan