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Sunday, April 19, 2020

2020 Maple Syrup Season was Excellent!

I have a Facebook page that I use to post info and photos about each year's maple syrup season.  It is called Backyard Maple Syruping.    As I know some of you don't use Facebook, I downloaded the 2020 posts, loaded them on my google cloud drive and used Drivetoweb to make them look like a long web page.  The Facebook link itself is

https://www.facebook.com/Backyard-Maple-Syruping-745375225598918

https://lgolx55zgwqq9z1zzjjseq-on.drv.tw/facebook%20backyard%20maple%20syrup/posts/posts_1.html 

The bottom link is backwards in time -- the way Facebook shows us current first. 

It is rather interesting to try to do sort of automatic websites with information from other places. 

I tried another one -- a website for backyard maple syruping -- nothing much there yet, but also free. 
https://sites.google.com/view/backyardmaplesyruping/home

The last step is to use tinyurl.com and make a simple short web address that goes to the longer one. 
 https://tinyurl.com/BackYardMapleSyruping

It was a great season.  We ran about 75 taps and got nearly 30 gallons of syrup -- great tasting too.   Now we are going to setup a road-side driveway stand and see if we can sell some without customer contact in this CV-19 period.