Spring has arrived here in Nipissing Village Ontario. The maple sap is flowing and trees are tapped. This year we tried putting the sap buckets higher in the maple trees to keep them away from the goats who love to slurp it up. ...but the buckets weren't high enough, check out the video below. Then we tried filling some buckets with vinegar-water and tying them low and easy to reach -- to get the goats to think that maybe all of these delicious silver buckets are filled with sour juice and not sweet sap. We learned of course that goats love vinegar, maybe even more than maple sap...

The Powassan Maple Syrup Festival will soon be here, we'll be there tending the Nipissing Museum booth - before heading home to get ready for our Revival Dear concert and the vegetarian dinner we are hosting that night.