Tapping the trees? really?

A few weeks ago my husband mentioned that he wanted to 'sugar' this year.  I giggled out loud.  He said he had been doing some research on sugaring and he wanted to give it a try this winter.  I was again shocked he was even thinking about it, you see we moved to the suburbs about a year and a half ago from a condo.  The house we bought is about 25 years old and we have about two acres.  We have lots of ideas and projects inside and outside of our house that we would like to do.  We also have two boys, ages 1 and 3 that are keeping us pretty busy.  So I asked him how he was going to get this done since we barely have time for our other projects.  We have been trying to grow a garden for two summers now and we are not very successful at that yet.  He thinks the end is coming in 2012 so he wants to be able to sugar as part of his survival.  More later....