February 15, 2010
Wow! A month has gone by. Sap is running. It started running Sunday, February 13, at exactly 12:26 p.m. I decided to hang a few buckets on the North pasture trees just to see. It was 37 degrees F. Poing Poing. Clear liquid sap dripped into the bucket. Today Rudy and I tapped more trees. We're about half finished. This is the earliest we have ever tapped. Maybe we're too eager. But the trees will reprimand us if we are by sealing off their tap holes. If it is an early year, it will be too hot for sugaring by the end of March. We'll have caught the wave.
All bottles are out to other maple producers. Everyone is stringing line, cleaning up the sap house and trying to figure out where the drill bits are.
The web site was invaded last week by a travel agency from a different continent. Imagine. Once they got in, each day their cyberthieves revisited to post a page throughout the web site. Eeek. Thanks to some help from Magnificent Mike, Access Denied.
January 18, 2010
Happy Martin Luther King Day. Mike is working with other computer wizards in Washington DC and Fox setting up computer support services for Haiti. I wonder if anyone, ESRI probably, is doing the same with GIS. They need solar panels to pump water. Where are the wells? Where are the pipes? Maps needed.
Meanwhile, only one sale here. Time to set up a comment page so site visitors can respond and tell me why they are not buying the Sagas. Can't they just email--rmcarlson@ncia.net. Too many webinations to communicate through, overload. Overload.
January 3, 2010:
Comments from two friends arrived. Sandy wondered why there is no place for responses on this blog. Get your own blog, Sandy. Or email me.
C wonders why she should read a web page at all. Good question. She explained that she knows what I am doing already. So why should she read about my activities? I emailed back. I think a web site is like a storefront on Main Street, Planet Earth. Anyone might walk in. She might want to walk in just to check out today's latest do-ha.
January 2, 2010:
Today I tweaked a few oddities and tried to get the site's title, Range View Farm, up and visible in the banner. It does appear if you mark the page as a Favorite. Hmm. Need a book on Drupal for Idiots. All the info on the web is in html talk. Drupal sounds like the name of a breed of camel. "The drupal is the fastest camel on dry sand," said the camel dealer. Or perhaps drupal is an exotic dessert, papaya or dates sweetened with maple syrup.
I did go to the library and opened my laptop in high speed land. Amazing, Range View Farm. com comes up. Will have to work on no title.
Pondering setting up a zine for subscribers.
January 1, 2010:
Today we finished enough of this web page to launch it into the world, January 1, 2010. A very exciting step for Range View. I am hoping readers will buy the Sagas, learn about maples, visit the garden and sap house. All the money we make will support my Maple Watch research. First expenses: mileage this month as I travel around New Hampshire visiting all the sugar producers who have volunteered to help us.
