Once we’d finished at the Orchid Show, we stopped to pick up an order for cat food for the starving house cat. Then we headed quickly north and west for our brunch.
Once we got to the top of the mountain and had come down the side of this part of it, we were at our destination. Last year when we came here after the Orchid Show, the hill was snow covered and it was gray and gloomy.
We were again at Davenport’s Sugar House and they were doing the first boiling of the year.
These jars are samples of each boiling from previous years. I love how they look in the sunlight.
These little pans were used to make maple sugar cakes in the past. We had a 20 minute wait for a table and so we spent it in the boiling room.
I got a mug of hot cocoa and a gluten free waffle with an egg and bacon. My friend got a gluten free waffle taco: waffle, maple cream, bacon, and 2 scrambled eggs. She also got an order of potato latkes with sour cream.
I asked if they used the Our Family Farms chocolate milk for the cocoa, but they said they used the plain milk and added Hershey’s cocoa. I think it would be much better with the chocolate milk as my brother’s recipe calls for a third less sugar than other chocolate milks.
I mentioned that a lot of people where using it for hot chocolate and the waitress said they only got the pint bottles and it would be too much trouble. I told her it was available in half gallons too.
The people who sat next to us ordered the chocolate milk and when asked how they liked it, they said it was almost like chocolate ice cream. So I told them my brother had made ice cream for decades but was now making milk, and that was a whole different thing to do.
So we had a pleasant meal and drove back to my house.
I had wanted to show my friend the giant alliums that had sprouted after being heaved out of the ground. While I was waiting for her, I noticed these circles.
Closer inspection revealed they were chewed off tulips. The rabbits were at it again.
So when she left, I changed clothes (bloodmeal smells) and went out and put bloodmeal around all the tulips in the New South, South, and New West gardens. It worked last year to save the tulips from the rabbits.
I was pretty worn out so I rested on the couch until my brother came home. We were making Rosemary Garlic Chicken, Wild rice, and butternut squash.
On Sunday, I have 2 posts to get up, the kitchen to clean, and then I plan to sit and transcribe plant notes as part of getting ready for this year.