"It turns out to be a community event 62
Perfect springlike day brings crowds to sugar
SHELBURNE There wasn't much Ray Ban Wayfarers Australia Price snow on the ground outside Palmer's Sugarhouse for the sugar on snow party Saturday. Mud more than anything.
Not that it mattered, since the Palmer family substitutes shaved ice for snow in its recipe. As for the sugar part, that was being processed in front of scores of visitors who packed into the Shelburne sugarhouse to commemorate the start of the sugaring season. And to eat doughnuts.
While the guests chowed down on the bevy of sweets for sale, white smoke billowed out of Timberland Stockists Perth the remote sugarhouse on Shelburne Hinesburg Road and faded into the blue sky. By noon, the temperature had climbed into the low 40s.
Good sugaring weather, David Palmer Ray Ban Wayfarers Australia Price said.
"Freezing nights, thawing mornings and warm days," Palmer said. "It's perfect right now. It's ideal."
The season had, however, gotten off to a slow Mont Blanc Pens Perth start, he added.
"It hasn't been a phenomenal season so far," Palmer said. "We'll never know how it is until May, and then we'll know Cheap Mont Blanc Pens the full story."
Palmer's grandmother founded the sugaring operation in the 1940s. His father inherited the business and ran it until he died in 2011.
"We're not a huge producer," Palmer said. "My Mont Blanc Starwalker father used to say, 'Anywhere from 1 to 1,000 gallons.'"
Toward that end, Palmer and brother in law Mike Rivers tended to boiling sap throughout Saturday's party, Palmer Cheap Mbt Shoes Australia often working with his 5 year old daughter Lilly in one arm. John Holland, a friend of Palmer's father Tiffany And Co Bracelets Australia and a musician who often plays on Church Street in Burlington, sang folk tunes and strummed a guitar in a three piece band.
Most of the sap comes from the family's 40 acre sugarbush, though they also buy sap from neighbors, Palmer said.
"It turns out to be a community event," Palmer said of the party. "We like this agritourism piece."
Most of the folks who visited the sugarhouse Saturday were young parents with young children. Palmer said he inherited along with the business his father's affection for the joy sugaring appears bring out in kids.
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