Farmwife's Journal-April 13th

Today our neighbor finished putting the windows in the barn.  He and his family joined us for lunch and spent most of the afternoon here. 
I got half of my elderberry and echinacea syrup bottled up....will finish the rest tomorrow.
The last of the sap buckets got put away today, and the last of the wood was stacked.  We still need to clean the evaporator and disassemble the sugar shack.
I made a batch of sauerkraut today.
We spotted our first tick of the season on Charlie, our cat. :(