For the last couple of days we have been watching a momma bird to be. So far she has built a nest and laid two eggs! She laid her eggs in a nest in our Redbud Tree.
She is a Robin. Robins have blue eggs and lay their eggs in the morning after sunrise. And after a breakfast of worms, worms, worms, worms.
She may lay four eggs.
She will sit on the eggs two weeks and then when they hatch, she will probably be thinking “hungry, hungry, hungry always hungry!”. Baby birds are always hungry!
She will probably tell her kids, “when you grow up I hope you have kids that put you through what you put me through!”
One of her kids will probably say “that’s what Grandpa says he kept on telling you! Say? What’s for breakfast?”
Momma Robin will say, “Worms.”
Another kid will say, “Worms? Again?”
We expect the babies to hatch around the 12th of May! We will keep you posted!
First you collect the sap from your tree. It needs to be a Maple tree; Sugar and Black Maple work best, but any kind of Maple will do. You get as much as
Then after it was boiled we let it sit for 12 hours in a cold place. All the sediments (Miss Krista called it Sugar Sand) goes to the bottom. We strained it using a funnel and coffee filters. Straining it took out all the sugar sand and made the syrup look nice.
sealed.
. It was silly! Miss Hunnicutt had a chicken hat. Everybody in her town wanted her to dress their way or you would be dressing wrong!
