So
shotboxer says to me, hey, we live in New England, the sap is running, we should go on a Maple Sugar Odyssey! And I say, Sure! Without remembering that the key feature of the Odyssey is that Odysseus wanders around kind of lost (but not entirely!) for rather a long time and with mixed success.

Okay, maybe not so mixed. I made a point out of picking up Grade A Medium Amber syrup at each and every place we went, so here are my eight little things of syrup. ...good thing I like maple syrup.
( In which Allison is a scholar and Thia just wants to blow things up, the details of maple syrup-ing are discussed, and alpacas may or may not be worth it. )
Okay, maybe not so mixed. I made a point out of picking up Grade A Medium Amber syrup at each and every place we went, so here are my eight little things of syrup. ...good thing I like maple syrup.
( In which Allison is a scholar and Thia just wants to blow things up, the details of maple syrup-ing are discussed, and alpacas may or may not be worth it. )