Into the woods by 8:30 AM to bottle. Finished by 11:45 AM. When to get gas for the tractor then prepared tanks and cleaned syrup pan. Sometimes it takes an hour of effort to clean the nitre from the pan. Today it just flaked off with little effort. Can’t explain why.
Collected at 3:00 PM. Picked up 210 gallons. We had a lot of help with collecting and finished in 45 minutes. That was nice.
It was 32 overnight. Sunny and high 40s today. Trees dripped into he night and dripped today, but not a big run. We expected more after recovering from the cold spell. This was the 10th collection. We typically get 9-11 collections a season so maybe we are coming to the end? Its three day until the next freezing night is forecast.
Cook tomorrow. Should be an easy day with 210 gallons. But we’ve had “easy” days become challenging days.
Back to the farmhouse by 4:30 PM.