…but I can’t complain too much.
It’s what he does.
Some guys drink, gamble, screw around. Some flirt, turn into sports junkies, internet hounds, live round two through their kids. Workaholics.
Mine taps trees.
There are worse things.
Every spring, or every time the temperature stays freezing at night and ventures into the plus 32 during the day, the sap flows and he’s tapping sugar maples at camp about 3 hours north. Think outhouse, not weekend home.
Sometimes his friends come along, which according to Kid3, is a complete and utter farce.
Love that kid.
Whatever kid can go, goes; sometimes one or two, sometimes it’s a field trip. They’re not afraid to tell school they’ll be out a few days because the sap is flowing.
They tap the trees, sit by the fire and talk. There is no tv, internet, or heat. There’s intermittent cell service if you stand just right near the bend in the brook. They spend hours upon hours boiling the sap down and return windburn, smelly, muddy, dirty and happy.
With a pint or two of golden springtime.
It’s his thing. He’s creating a tradition that our kids will continue which is quite a beautiful thing.
Happy Spring.
Those trees can be so seductive.
Sounds like a nice tradition!
@lazymom Had I known when I married him….
@leslie It is. Even tho 5° at night, an outhouse and a woodstove. So not my thing; I went, I tried, I returned home.
Does not sound like something I would want to do more than once or twice. It is nice that your hubby enjoys it. And like you said, it could be something worse.
@michelle: it is so unbelievably beautiful…in July. I went for years, and now happily stay home to shuttle remaining kids to and from.
ps. it is snowing here. Again.
tell boy that his dad does too have friends. No mere “husband of a friend” would endure such upstate hardships for the sake of his wife’s friendship and NOT make her come along too.
@dave: humbly acknowledging friend presence. you rock.
You could try dabbing a little Pine Sol behind your ears. Stopping over from Java’s blog. Now following because I think we could be new BFFs.
Mrs Tuna:
Pine Sol!!
brilliant.
better than Victoria’s Secret any day. it’ll be my new secret weapon!
So sweet. And sappy. I can understand the allure. Sounds hard core too.