By the end of the season everything is sticky. Sap or syrup gets spilled on the floor. The steam swells door and window frames. Gloves get syrup on them. Of course we clean things as we go along but it still seems to accumulate.

All the taps are pulled and all the buckets are back in the building. All the sap is out of the evaporator and into milk cans. We will finish cooking it on the gas burner now because we can not control the heat on the wood fired evaporator. We have filled the evaporator with water and cleaning solution to let it soak for a few days.