Into the woods by 10:30 AM to check buckets. Many full, but also a lot of ice in the buckets. It’s not clear when the trees dripped so much to create full buckets of ice. It was before yesterday when the low was -2. That low caused the ice.
Used buckets to store sap by moving sap from full and over flowing buckets to less full buckets. Checked the weather forecast: rain starting between 2:30 PM and 3:00 PM. Starting collecting at 1:00 PM hoping to avoid the rain. Finished collecting by 2:30 PM just as rain started. 270 gallons. The trees had mostly stopped dripping by the time we collected.
Rain and snow mix tonight. Northern Wisconsin is getting 12”-18” of snow.
Back to the farmhouse by 4:30 PM after we pumped sap into the storage tank.