Well, we are successful (although not off our trees).  Our friends went to Florida for 6 days and asked us if we would like to tend their trees so we have.  Twice we gathered sap.  On Tuesday we got a small amount of sap and it boiled down to 1/2 cup of syrup.  Today was much better.  We gathered 7 or 9 gallons of sap and have boiled it down to 1 quart of sap.  I am not convinced it couldn't be thicker but my oldest dd is very worried that something will happen to our precious syrup so she begged me to stop it.  It tastes good and looks like syrup and the thermometer says 219 F which is where it is supposed to be so I stopped it.

Tuesdays' syrup is already gone as we had pancakes on Wed. morning and used the syrup all up.  We will guard this one a bit longer I hope.  And it will taste extra good because we made it ourselves.

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Posted by EEEEMommy

Hooray! :) How fun!
Here's a recipe for "the ultimate amazing bread" (I haven't tried it myself to know if that's true), if you want to spare 1/3 of a cup of your syrup to make it. :)
http://myblessedhome.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-make-ultimate-amazing-bread.html#article

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Posted by Canadagirl

Hi there old friend !

That is sooooooooooooo neat that you all get to do this! What a GREAT experience. I think if I remember it right if you cook it down or to a certain temp then you can get maple sugar. [0= But I can imagine how proud you all are of your OWN syrup ! [0=

Sending you blessings and ((hugs)) my friend that I MISS so much.

In Him<><
-Mary

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Posted by DanielleW

That is very exciting. We have a big maple in our yard but it is a Norway Maple. LOL There was a nature reserve that was doing a thing on maple sugar but we weren't able to make it. Maybe next year.

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