The sugaring business is the first agricultural crop of the season, an excuse to get out after being indoors all winter, and a chance to earn some extra income.

This is only going to give us potentially a really, really good run.

In fact, that isn't smoke, it's steam. Once you have your sap, you boil it down for hours to make the syrup. When the sap is running, we boil all night. If you tramp into the woods to a sugar shack, by tradition, you are offered a taste.

Collectively, as an industry, there's no right or wrong answers. Whatever works for an individual is the right way.

Swiss Re has benefited from its well-diversified business to absorb an unparalleled sequence of exceptionally large natural catastrophe events.

I love what I do. People depend on me for their livelihoods. But I'm not married to the business. I spend a lot of time with my family. And the hockey thing is important to me. I may get into scouting.