We find it difficult, sometimes, to figure out when to start projects. Often, we find it even more difficult to figure out when to stop!
Birch tapping got off to a slow start this year. Now, we’re producing almost more than we can handle. At the moment, I have 7 gallons of birch wine in process, along with another two gallons of other wine to which I’m adding birch sap, and we’re still harvesting about a gallon a day.
An extra table of wine batches (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
The blog’s been published almost 7 years now. In that time, you’ve learned a lot about me and my family. What you have not learned here, though, is that I am a kilt wearer.
I own two “little” kilts, as opposed to the great kilt (which I’d dearly love to own, but haven’t acquired yet) that you see in movies such as Roby Roy and Braveheart. Great kilts wrap around the waist and cover one shoulder in normal wear; little kilts are the basic waist wrap.
I purchased one of my kilts from a commercial manufacturer, but the one I wear most often, I made myself.
Mark’s homemade kilt: good for homestead chores, simply grand for striking heroic poses when necessary (Photo: Michelle L. Zeiger).
