I miss making syrup. The BIL still has a working mill at his farm, but our old mill hasn't been used in 50 years. This one is almost exactly like ours, down to how it was driven.
Wow was that cane syrup good on pancakes an toast? What i make here is Maple syrup.
I was raised with it, so it seemed normal as a kid, but now it taste too dark to me. My granddaddy was a syrup cooker. And the BIL has taken over the cooking at his farm since his dad is so old. You have to be very careful with the heat, or you will get too dark.
That's a sign of things to come; climate change is doing a real number on the old forests. You know how hard it is to find actual caviar anymore? Is because the fish that it comes from are all but gone. They had the misfortune of being very slow growing...
I heard on the news that there was a couple three feet forecast for the higher mountains.
If you come all the way to Colorado, I'm in Ft Collins, about 60 miles north of Denver. Hit me up and maybe we can grab a beer.
Thanks for the invite. My tether is not that long though. My wife doesn't travel well, so we don't get far from home anymore. I guess the last time I was out there was 1979. Sister and BIL #2 was moving to Florida, so I flew out to help with the driving. I've been a couple three times in all. They lived in Boulder and Longmont back then. Sister went back without BIL #2 and lived in Co Springs the next 20 odd years.
