It was spur of the moment, but everyone was available to go to The Red Bucket Sugar Shack this afternoon.
This is an exerpt from our visit there in March 2004 -
Marley’s first visit to The Red Bucket Sugar Shack was on Sunday, March 14, 2004. Paul and I started going there while I was working at BayState Service and Systems, sometime in the 1990’s. A fellow employee named Gerry, who lived in Huntington, said she thought it was the best sugar house around and she always took her grandchildren there. The people who own and operate it are around our age. They have a photo album there with pictures of when they first built the sugar shack back in the 1970’s. We try to go there once or twice a year. It was very crowded when we got there; we had actually never seen that many people there. Come to find out there was a birthday party with about 10 or so kids. Talk about noisy; Fred had his fingers in his ears! I think Marley enjoyed the excitement of it though. She colored “Maple Sugar” pages and Big Baba bought her a coloring book on the way out. She liked seeing them making syrup, the big fire and all the smoke. We had a great breakfast and a nice family time.
These are a few pictures from our visit there in 2004.
Marley was exactly the same age then as Mason is for his first visit here today.
We have been only a few times since then, and not at all since 2006.
We had lots of maple syrup today and everyone seemed to enjoy it.
This is a picture of the couple who started The Red Bucket Sugar Shack back in 1979. They still own and run it themselves.
Here are a few pictures from today.
Hopefully we won't let as much time go by before we go back again!
2 comments:
Looks like a LOT of fun Deb. Is this place open all year or only during Maple Sugar time? Do Krissy and Mark remember going there as kids?
Thanks for the pictures!!! Sandi enjoys looking at your Blog now and watching all your travels. She says...."They just have so much fun together." <3 <3
Lin, Paul and I didn't go there when the kids were young. We started going there some time in the 1990's. The restaurant is only open while they are making maple syrup, usually March and April, and only weekends I think. Their little store is open during the week, but I don't know if it is year round. They probably have a web site.
Tell Sandi that I have enjoyed reading her comments!!
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