We bottled our first syrup of the season today. About 4 gallons. We had a problem with our filter press. It was not pumping through syrup properly. We had to get it fixed because it was really unusable the way it was. It turned out to be very easy. We took it apart and found the stop value clogged up. Looks like an old filter got sucked into it. We noticed problems toward the end of last season too so it was probably the same thing. It should work properly now.

No collecting today. It was very warm, over 50. By Thursday it gets closer to normal again.