Takeing Care Of Details-Someone Has To

Well, As I stated a couple weeks ago, we shut down the maple syrup evaporartors.
The weather turned off sunny and warm and all hands shifted to working the ground and getting oats in the ground here at Clinton Camp Farm.
That left 2300 sap buckets still hanging in the woods. We hired a couple Amish lads that have worked for us 3 years now, for two afternoons, to help get the buckets down, and set at the sides of the roads in the bush.
The weather turned of real crappy last week, and got more snow last week, so things didn't progress as planned. Sunday morning one of my cousins and I went up to the bush and finally picked up the last of the buckets, and I brought them down to my house to wash the remaining 1200 yesterday and today.
Boy am I glad that project is done, as I get soaked to the bone, even with coveralls on washing the buckets out with the pressure washer in each session. I washed the last 539 buckets this afternoon. There are 1200 bkts in these pics., plus 39 leakers of to the side that need repair. I posted pic back a while ago of the stack of 1100 bkts.
Tomarrow one of my cousins and I will pressure wash the evaporator pans and cover them with Tyvek until next year and get all the buckets into 25 count stacks and into storage in the sap house if it doesn't rain tonight and they get wet again.
The next to last pic., May Flowers in full bloom, and Leeks, and wild Chives are all ready for harvest.
Sounds like some good Venison stew to me. HeHe.
The last pic is of my coveralls drying in front of the fireplace. I wish it would warm up so I don't have to keep burning wood that I will have to cut this summer to replace.
Loren, the Acg.

The folks have been washing spouts and covers--the people that tap our woods are washing the buckets. Leeks here are several weeks away from harvest, at least to judge by the ones a friend has planted near his house in order to judge when it's worth our while to go to our usual spots for wild ones. Got one pint of pickled ones from last year left, and have been eying them every time I open the cupboard, but haven't broke into them yet.

When you speak of leeks, are you referring to the wild ones that are known as ramps?

Yes. To my knowledge, they're the same plant with different names--ramps seems to be more of a southern and/or mountain-region term--would that make it an Appalachian Appellation?

Those boots (last picture) look familiar. Carhartts?

I love the cab on the 430 Case. I didn't know there was a cab available for the 430, I have a 1964 Case 430 What cabs will fit on it? I would like to put one on my 430. Does your cab have heat & air cond. Thanks Dave F.

Dave F -- I think he 'custom' build that cab for himself! A real piece of craftiwork.
Check on the Case/David Brown forum path, I think he posted a few threads showing the build progress.