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Happy Anniversary Sweetie

This is a picture of Pam on the front porch of a log cabin, deep in the woods in an old logging camp in North Central Canada. I left Pam in the woods (not here) and "went to work" every day for three or four days. When I came back there she was just as happy as little lark.

She is a wonderful person. She is the best person I've ever met.

In addition to being comfortable in the woods, she convinced me she was almost perfect the day we went to the mall and she asked if we could leave because there were too many people. She is the rare woman who does not like to go the mall.

What has impressed me most over the last year was how she prays. My prayers go out of my head hit the ceiling, bounce off the wall and I can almost see them collapse on the floor, laying there.... She prays and things happen. At church one morning there was one of those call to prayers. A lady left the side of her young relative, walked past deacons, elders, pastors, grabbed Pam by the hand and had her come to the front of the church to pray for her relative. What can I tell you that that simple act does not.

I love you sweetie. Happy Anniversary!

Today is Matthew's birthday. Happy birthday Matt.

1992

Andrew's birthday was the 20th. Matthew's birthday is today.

Maple Syrup Cooker

Another posting less about photography and more about life in Northern Indiana...

A few posts ago we showed the maple trees being tapped in our woods for sap. Pam (my wife) talked to the Amish man who is tapping the trees on Friday and got over to his place with one of the cameras (the Nikon). She took this picture of the cooker.

You can see the wood to the right... the cooker is wood fired. It sits out in the open. Pam says this is a small cooker. The Amish guy said the cooker was made locally, in Honeyville, which is a wide place in the road hereabouts.

Pam tasted the maple syrup and also tasted the hardened maple syrup from the bottom which is a candy... sugar candy she thinks is what it is called... and she said they both were delicious.

Happy Birthday Andrew

I love you Andrew!!!

maple syrup time

Most of the pictures here are suppose to be pretty. This one is suppose to be interesting. Last fall a young Amish man came and asked if he could tap the trees in the woods for sap to make maple syrup. He had to mark the trees while the leaves were still on to tell which were maples. See the yellow strip on the tree near the bottom.

This spring he came back and began to harvest sap. The plastic bucket, tube etc are all the means to that end. He was here on Saturday and he had 25 gallons of sap. He said that was about enough for a half gallon of maple syrup.

Mr. J