Cold overnight. Down to 8. Sunny but only 28 today by late afternoon. Morning was in the teens.
Into the woods by 1:00 PM to prepare for bottling. Almost scorched the bottling pan. It had about a half inch of ice from cleaning water that remained in the pan. Started the burner to melt the ice, but the pan heated faster then the ice melted. We caught it before the pan was damaged.
The syrup in the milk cans is very close to done. It was only about half a degree from finished density. It’s nice to get it done quickly, but we have to monitor when we take syrup off the evaporator, so it doesn’t get past finished density.
Back to the farmhouse by 5:30 PM.