Into the woods at 11:45 AM light the burners on finishing pan. Had to change to a new tank of propane. Set us back about 15 minutes. It was 12:00 PM before he finishing pan was going. Bottling by 2:00 PM.
We got the second milk can into the finishing pan before starting to bottle. Lite the burner at 2:35 PM so it would be ready shortly after finishing the first can. Finished bottling by 3:05 PM. The second milk can was ready by 4:00 PM. Finished bottling by 5:15 PM. Clean up done by 5:30 PM and back to the farmhouse.
There is 12 or 13 gallons from the evaporate to cook out. That should give us 4 to 5 gallons of finished syrup. Work on that tomorrow when we bottle again.
Cloudy until 2:00 PM when the sun appeared. Temperature mid 40s.