Maple Sugaring, A Family Tradition!
Hitty makes pancakes on the old wood cookstove. The little bear looks on with eager anticipation!
An Ancestral Old New England House!
My great great great grandmother's great grandparent's old house in Rhode Island. I love this house with its wonderful stone walls and maple trees! It was my 6th great grandfather's house.
Buckets are hung on the old maple tree for collecting sap.
Hitty and Little Bear enjoy their pancakes with goat's milk.
Real Maple syrup is in the bird jug.
Little Bear likes sticky things, honey and maple syrup are favorites! Yum!
Little Bear has been a well loved little bear. He is worn and is missing an ear but all the dolls at Corgyncombe think he is adorable!
At the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair, pancakes, maple syrup, old fashioned doughnuts and apple cider can be found at Hitty Maple's booth.
Quackenbush excitedly quacks and flaps his wings and hops atop the bench and indicates that pancakes and doughnuts are amongst his favorite things! He is so happy to bring Dilley Dibble Dabble to visit this booth!
Quackenbush and Dilley Dibble Dabble have been featured at the Corgyncombe Courant for years.
The pancakes are made right in the booth on an old wood cookstove.
What a pleasant sight it is to see the old buckets hung on the maple trees!
With the coming of spring, with freezing nights and warming days, the sap in the old sturdy maple trees starts its journey up the trees. For generations my family has harvested the sweetness of the maple tree. When I was a little girl I remember peeking into my grandfather's sugar house at night to see my grandfather and uncles tending the fires and skimming the foam from boiling sap pan.
Maple sugaring is a tradition in my family!
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