The trees worked overtime. They must have dripped all night. Trees tapped at 4:00 in the afternoon were full by 10:00 the next morning. A cold front was moving through and the weather changing. It was getting much colder, into the 20s. So the race was on to collect the sap before it all froze in the buckets. We started collecting about 10:00 am and were pretty much done by noon. We collected 400 gallons of sap. Ice was already forming in the buckets so waiting was not an option. As the weather was still getting colder we were still faced with ice in the storage tanks. So we started the evaporator to boil down the sap. We will boil all night. Tomorrow is also forecast to be cold, in the 20s. If we don’t boil down the sap our storage tanks will be a block of ice. It will be a long night.