This handsome team was giving free wagon rides today at our local sugar bush.
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This handsome team was giving free wagon rides today at our local sugar bush.
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That looks like a lovely quiet pair. Also it’s a very nice harness. The man clearly has great pride in them.
Cool. But what’s a sugar bush?
kestrel @ 1
Yeah, the harness has some nice decoration but isn’t overly gaudy.
Yeah, I’m clueless on the sugar bush too.
Sugar bush is a Canadianism for a stand of maple trees that are tapped for syrup.
Oh! Okay, makes sense. :D
I ♥♥♥ REAL maple syrup.
Worth its weight in gold, that.
To expand your store of Canadianisms -- Around this time of year, school groups and other folks head out to sugar bushes to take a tour of the operations, typically including a wagon ride, making tire de neige (snow taffy) by pouring maple syrup on snow and then rolling the mix up on a stick, and a special meal that heavily features maple syrup and includes brown beans, ham and potatoes. Other entertainments, educational components and things like ziplines may also be included. The whole trip is called sugaring off, as in, the class went sugaring off on Thursday. Haven’t been in decades, miss it dearly.
Thank you, Whirlwitch! That sounds like a fabulous time.