We tapped our maple trees two days ago. It was fun. I helped Mark tap the trees. Later we will make maple syrup and maple sugar and maple candy.

So far we only have a little bit of sap, because it is sort of cold outside still.

We went to Oxbow park. The big hill had a lot of  big handmade bumps. We don’t play on the bumps because they are not safe. Our friend got really hurt going over bumps the wrong way last year. So we went to the Little Hill. There were a few bumps, but I could go really fast on the sides where there were a lot of footmarks.

I like going to Bonnyville Park’s hills better. But we don’t go there as often because it is farther away. It is harder to go there because we go during the school day. If it isn’t a school day there are a lot of people!

Even though we have not gone to the parks much this year, we can still go sledding in our back yard and there are hardly any bumps.  Unless you go over the side!

It was COLD and windy today. It has been getting windier all day.

Before it got so windy, we went outside. We sledded outside a lot.  It was very fun.

We tried to make boiling water into snow. You boil water.  Then you put it in a long handled pot and you throw it outside when it is very cold out (Momma said it was -22 degrees F with the wind chill this morning).  You make sure you throw it so it does not come back at you and you burn yourself.  Momma or Mark has to do it.  It worked! It looked neat!

I probably won’t play outside anymore today, there is A LOT of wind! The nice thing is the wind is blowing all the snow off the roof so it won’t melt into our house.  It looks pretty too.

I get to play with magnetics instead!