160 gallons at 3 Brix. The run from yesterday continued all night. 34 overnight with rain. Cloudy with showers today. High of 42. It’s satisfying to find full buckets. Not all the buckets, but enough to feel good about. Trees that hadn’t dripped seem to be waking up. There were still big chunks of ice from the cold days of the past week. Dumping the ice brought the Brix up to 3.
Checked the buckets at Noon to confirm we could collect. Then back at 2:30 PM to wash tanks. Started collecting by 2:50 PM. Solo. Done by 5:00 PM. We can empty 100 buckets an hour working solo.
The buckets had the nice ping of drip, drip, drip that we haven’t heard before today during this season.
Snow forecast for tonight. 2-4 inches of wet snow. We’ll cook in the morning.