Into the woods by 9:15 AM for bottling. Our strategy to fill the milk can with less syrup worked. We were able to dump the milk can into the finishing pan and bottling pan by our self. The milk can was 11 lbs to 16 lbs lighter. We’ll continue using this strategy of less syrup in the milk can. We have five milk cans so we should be able to manage the inventory.
22 overnight. Sunny and up to 35 today. Trees thawed slowly but started dripping leisurely in the afternoon. Tomorrow should be similar to today. Waiting to see how much they drip.
Bottled 20 qts and 11 pts. Back to the farmhouse by 1:45 PM.