Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Porches, Birthdays, Ramps, and Syrup!


 We had a lot of help hauling buckets and boiling down the sap.  We wound up with 25 gallons of syrup! 



It's great to have a covered porch!  Thank you to my Dad and his cousin Loureen for giving us the boards from her old deck!


We had a cowboy themed party to celebrate my birthday :).


So many great friends came out!

So many kids e njoying the woods!


Mustaches on sticks....





And awesome costumes!




 And Andrea and Thomas brought sky lanterns too!



 
 
 
Wild Ramps Pesto!


1. Find ramps


2. Gather many ramps



3. Puree with parmesan, walnuts, and sunflower oil

We wound up with 5 gallons of finished canned pesto :)
 


And a lovely nest of robin eggs by our toolshed.
 
 
We leave for Colorado for tomorrow, so this is the last post with house pictures for a few months.  have a great summer!