Sugar on Snow 2012

We have had such a warm spring this year, the buds are already out on the trees... which apparently means a very short sugaring season for the local sugar farmers.  Instead of having 5 weeks to collect sap, they only had 5 days this year.  Yikes!  Fortunately for us, they are still doing sugar on snow (for this weekend at least)!

Prince L likes the "maple water" when the ice melts, and ate up as much syrup as he could get his hands on.  He was hoping to be able to scoop up more "snow" to eat, but the ice in our trays were pretty solid!

Prince K wanted an ice cream instead, but we convinced him to get this yummy once-a-year treat instead.  I think he's glad he did.  He wound the syrup on his fork until it looked like he had a maple lollipop!  Prince K giggled and talked with his grandparents until we headed home.

Prince M didn't like the sugar on snow, but he sure loved the donuts.  He ate his, part of Hubby's, and a good piece of Prince L's too!  He spent most of the afternoon asking to "see cows" that were out in the back pasture.  Unfortunately for him, by the time we got outside to see the cows they had headed back towards the barn instead.

After we ate our treat, we headed outside to explore.  It was much cooler today that it has been recently, and rainy, so we kept our adventure short.  The kiddos always love the swings, the sugar house, and looking around for animals. 

Hopefully next year will be a better sugaring season, but this year it was still yummy!