OOC here: Table & Coding © Sunny; Yay! Maple syrup making thread!; 538 words
The curiosity hadn't lessened at all since he had first gotten here. He was still quite curious. And so he was out exploring still. He was going to learn the lay of the land one way or another. He patted Ringo's neck as he walked next to his horse for the time being. He glanced over to Sessane, who was out on Yoko, and smiled at her. He wasn't certain how she felt about the clan that they had ended up a part of. There wasn't the bustle there like there had been in Barbados. This lifestyle was more laid back than he was used to. It was something that he would have to get used to when he was used to some sort of commerce, where value was placed upon trinkets and such. There didn't seem to be an established trading system here.
He was pulled from his thoughts when Sessane cleared her throat. He glanced over to her and then to the building that was tucked away among the trees. Imacai gave a shrug and turned to head towards the building. Might as well take a look and see what it was. He left Ringo and Yoko outside as he entered with Sessane to look around. He had never seen anything like it before. In one corner there was plastic tubing and spouts and there was some other sort of system as well.
Sessane was the one that ended up finding the manual and showed it to Imacai. He glanced through it quickly and found out that this place was used to create some sort of something or another. That was definitely interesting. He looked up from the weathered pages, that had pictorial diagrams imprinted upon the pages, and looked back to Sessane questioningly. The communication was silent but they seemed to understand each over. So after a pause from the female she ended up nodding her head. Imacai smiled and kept a hold on the manual and went to collect the tubing to go and set up as was described and shown in the book.
The tubing was taken outside and slipped over the horses's heads to hang around their necks so that they could be moved up the gentle slope to the trees. With the tubes on hand the two head up to the trees to start on the process of tapping the trees as depicted, of course starting out with laying out the tubing and running it back to the sugar house. They ended up having to go back in for a couple of the hand drills so they would be able to make the holes in the trees. But at least they had the spouts laid on the ground near the trees and the tubes placed within the container that would collect the sap and allow it to be boiled down. So at least the prep work was done even it they had forgotten the tools need for the manual labor of applying the taps into the trees. But they had the drills now and returned to where they had left the spouts so that they could work on actually tapping the trees, drilling holes in them to fit the spouts into.
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