Into the woods by 4:00 AM to cook. Back to the farmhouse by 3:00 PM: 11 hours. With the R/O we’d have finished by 9:00 AM. But with a poor season it didn’t seem reasonable to start the R/O even through it’s in the woods. Concerned we wouldn’t get enough water for washing the R/O after each use. We are cooking old school.
Five batches into the milk can.
28 overnight. Sun appeared by 10:30 AM. By Noon it was sunny and temperature up to 40. The trees started to run: 60 drops a minute: one drop per second. Pressure was negative until 11:00 AM then rose to 16 PSI. But the late start of the run means there isn’t enough sap to collect today. May run overnight. Forecast is 31. Hoping we can collect tomorrow.
Last night’s snow flurries did accumulate to 1/2″ overnight. Everything was snow covered and white again.
The day cooking.
4:30 22.00″
5:00 20.75″
6:00 19.25″
6:10 batch
7:00 16.50″
8:00 14.50″
8:00 batch
9:00 12.25″
10:00 10.00″
10:30 batch
11:00 8.75″
12:00 6.25″
12:15 batch
1:00 3.75″
2:00 2.00″
2:15 batch
2:30 0.50″
2:45 done