Started the evaporator early, about 5:00 am. We wanted to get all the sap boiled through. We finished and bottled 22 quarts for the day. Our total is now 51 quarts or about 12 gallons. That is a nice first week.

Had a thunderstorm overnight. It seemed to be more lightening and thunder than rain. But the old saying is “thunder over an open woods means more snow yet.” An “open woods” means no leaves are out yet. With the warm temperatures the snow in the woods has been melting fast. On Monday when we tapped there was about 12″ of snow in the woods. Now there is hardly any left.