...the Indians, I think they wove it from root fibers and then polymerized
the stuff in teepee factories.... "doing it" clearly refers to sugaring
rather than to plastic pipe.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: walkabout in Valencia
> Where did they get their plastic pipe? :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> richard mcgrath wrote:
> > ...here too. The Canadians don't have a monopoly on high(ish) tech
> > sugaring. American Indians were doing it before either French or
English
> > arrived...or so the story goes.
> > Richard
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: walkabout in Valencia
> >
> >
> >> ...ever been to a maple syrup production facility in Quebec or Nova
Scotia
> > ?
> >> The last one I went to in Nova Scotia had upwards of 10,000 mature
maple
> >> trees in the woods all hooked up together with 3/4 to 1" bore plastic
> > piping
> >> collecting the sap. 100 gallons of sap are boiled away down to 1 gallon
> > and
> >> that 1 gallon is the "maple syrup". The in-the-woods production
facilities
> >> are pretty primitve and basic .............. just a water boiling
> > operation
> >> fed by wood fired furnaces consuming eight foot long semi-split
seasoned
> >> fire logs !
> >>
> >> jh
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "richard mcgrath" <richardinvermont@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:50 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: walkabout in Valencia
> >>
> >>
> >>> Chris, I dunno' about there, but here they sell bars of Lindt 90%
cocao
> > in
> >>> the supermarket. Then again, here...they make maple syrup from tree
> >>> sap.--Richard
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:29 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: walkabout in Valencia
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I hate to admit it, Richard, but I have a feeling that there is more
> >>>> cocoa
> >>> in a Hershey bar than in the average bar of English "chocolate".
> >>>> But German, French and Belgian chocolate is the best, along with the
> >>> organic stuff from Green & Black's and the Fairtrade stuff from the
> > Co-op
> >>> in
> >>> the UK.
> >>>> Chris
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12 Apr 2010, at 21:07, richard mcgrath wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> ...clearly not a fan of Hershey bars...
> >>>>> Richard
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