The Adventures of Pearl !!! Host list post's #22 and #23

Wow, Rookie82 Rookie82 , thank you for letting Pearl—and us through your posts and photos—share in the process of how maple syrup is made. I had a vague idea of the process before, but now have a real appreciation for the effort required to do it at your scale and in time-honored tradition.

I thoroughly enjoy learning about labors of love such as yours. Thank you for sharing!
 
I was going to get a few more shots with Pearl if I go out to trim apple trees and blueberry bushes, but we just got a big winter blast with 10 inches of snow on the ground. I don't feel like trimming trees with the snow dumping on my head. If we get another warm up soon, I'll get a few more shots of Pearl in the sugarhouse, and then I'll send her along to her next adventure. Is SVTFreak next on the list? I think my turn may have come out of order.
 
The order listed in post 22 had you receiving it after me. Had I not sat on the knife so long, I would have tried to meet up with SVTFreak SVTFreak , but since I did and late Feb worked best for you, I sent it off to you. I'm glad I did, too! I think you've had the most enjoyable (for us) adventure with Pearl yet!
 
Wurrwolf, I actually thought about that too but decided to let her travels take her here in due time.
 
Well guys, we got another winter storm here, and it looks like the weather is going to be cold for another week or more. So nothing can be done with maple syrup season. I'll make arrangements to send Pearl on to her next vacation spot.
 
Pearl showed up today. Along with a note from Carl Rookie82 Rookie82 . Don’t worry, man. I have some family in Maine that keeps me stocked in maple syrup. I like that grade B dark too! Lol.

Unpacked her and immediate tossed in my pocket to head to work. Hopefully Monday or Tuesday we’ll get to go out to the edge of the swamp and maybe do some hot rod building.
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Rookie82--- thank you so much for all of the great information and pictures while hosting Pearl. It was such a pleasure to read and follow along with all the many great things you and your family have done and are doing. I have got to start thinking hard on what Pearl and I are going to do to compare with your wonderful vacation for her. I look forward to hearing about the Apple cider!!!
 
Yes, I'm always good at getting too many irons in the fire at once. Feb/March is maple syrup season (+ getting wood for it for 11 months). I'm getting honeybee hives here in early April, and so I've spent that last 4 months building a bear-proof tower that is 14 foot up off the ground for the hives to stay on. I wanted the bees for pollination, and if I get honey that will be a bonus. We have 30+ blueberry bushes that are over 8 foot high, and over 50 years old. So June-August we are picking 100 quarts of blueberries to give away to friends and family. The garden full of beans and tomatoes and carrots needs weeded and watered all summer. September is time to make our homemade salsa (30 quarts) and spaghetti sauce (40 quarts), so that takes quite a lot of tomatoes. The apple trees start bearing fruit come September, and we have an Apple Cider party with all the family to come bring their apples, and pick ours, and we make 30-40 gallons of cider in 1 afternoon. Then the chestnut trees and hazelnut trees drop their nuts in October, so that is a long month of trying to pick them all before the squirrels steal them all. Come November, the cabbage is picked and ready to be ground up and made into sour kraut, which isn't ready to eat until February. My daughter got baby chicks last year, so we're getting 7-10 eggs every day that we mostly just give away to family and friends. My uncle slaughters a Angus cow every fall, that I help with, and buy 1/2 the meat from him. My other uncle raises chickens, and we trade him maple syrup for 15 whole butchered chickens each fall. A friend from high-school raises hogs every year, so we always buy one of those from him once a year to butcher. Any my sister's husband gets 2 elk every year in hunting season, which he shares some of the meat with us.

It is all a lot of work. But it keeps me and my family active and out of trouble. But the upside is that we don't need the grocery store too often, and our food $ can be spent on other things.
 
Me and pearl working hard today. Installed AC compressor on the hot rod. Made the bracket for the PCM and installed it. Then started on a trans mount from scratch. She posed for a couple shots.

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She’s sitting pretty on the cowl
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Then, off we went to the woods. Had a tree fell across the path during the very rare south Louisiana snow storm and I’m just now getting around to going cut it. Pearl tried but couldn’t quite handle it. But that’s ok, I brought backup.
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Poor girl got to vacation in New Orleans while last in Louisiana, but this time she’s earning her keep!

Gotta work a couple days, so she won’t see much beyond being a fidget toy, but hopefully the weekend will be more fun before I touch her up, oil her up and send her off for her next tour stop.
 
Wurrwulf said:
Awesome post, SVTFreak SVTFreak ! Is that a Coyote in the hot rod? You and Rookie82 Rookie82 have been working that girl like a dog! Haha. Looking forward to this weekend's pics.
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Yessir it is. And a 6R80 trans. Also getting a 2.9L whipple supercharger but I’m going to get it running N/A out of the box first.

All my knives earn their keep. I don’t abuse them, but I don’t shy away from use. Pearl don’t get a free pass hehehe
 
Your supercharger has a larger displacement that both vehicles in my driveway. Haha! You might need some more meat on the rear end there. ;) That thing is going to be a rocket!
 
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