What a sap!

So I noticed this morning that the maple tree was dripping. We had it pruned to within one inch of its life and it is now drooling sweet sap from all those cut off branches. This was only mildly interesting until I realized this afternoon that it was also drooling all over the cars. So Michael spent quality time at the car wash on a Sunday getting the ox out of the mire, trying to get the cars back in shape. The yard art Lexus is the biggest problem as we can't move it. He washed it down and put soapy water on it so that the next batch of sap will wash off easier. He'll just have to keep after it, I guess. So I don't know how long the sap runs and how long we'll have syrup-mobiles.

On the positive side, while I was at a church meeting in Scranton on Saturday, Michael spotted a pileated woodpecker in our yard. If you've never seen one, they're huge! Almost as big as a crow. Michael was a little worried that it might want to stay in our yard. This means you have a dead tree. But the woodpecker just passed through. Pretty amazing!