We were just reading about this wonder this week in "Understood Betsy"... I'll save you the blurb, but it's a read-aloud for 1st grade, and after tapping their trees and collecting the sap, they have some hot syrup ready for Betsy when she gets home. They call it "waxing" though. I had to call Griff over as soon as I saw these pics. He was very jealous. Waxing syrup or sugar-snow or whathaveyou is not something we can achieve in these tropical climes... unless he crawls in our deep freeze.
Sandy, I have that book saved in the GiftBook Basement Bin for a Christmas present for Annie! I love picturing him reading it surrounded by tropical greenery. It's kind of like when our girls read tales set in Africa or India-- totally out of their range of experience and therefore doubly exotic and enticing.
I've also heard it called Jack Wax, which I think is more whimsical than sugar on snow. Oh, well.
We were just reading about this wonder this week in "Understood Betsy"... I'll save you the blurb, but it's a read-aloud for 1st grade, and after tapping their trees and collecting the sap, they have some hot syrup ready for Betsy when she gets home. They call it "waxing" though. I had to call Griff over as soon as I saw these pics. He was very jealous. Waxing syrup or sugar-snow or whathaveyou is not something we can achieve in these tropical climes... unless he crawls in our deep freeze.
ReplyDeleteWe intended to do this very thing during that last big snowstorm and then we realized we had no more syrup. Maybe next year.
ReplyDeleteMatt will have to tell you what he used to do as a boy while boiling sap. It is....er...interesting!
Sandy,
ReplyDeleteI have that book saved in the GiftBook Basement Bin for a Christmas present for Annie! I love picturing him reading it surrounded by tropical greenery. It's kind of like when our girls read tales set in Africa or India-- totally out of their range of experience and therefore doubly exotic and enticing.
I've also heard it called Jack Wax, which I think is more whimsical than sugar on snow. Oh, well.
Rebecca,
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