Arrived in WI about 12:30 PM. From the air on the plane ride in from Washington DC we can see the snow cover over the fields and woods.  By 2:30 PM we were out in the woods getting organised for tapping. We washed the buckets during January and brought them into the woods during February. Our shipment of bottles arrived about two weeks ago. We are ready.  By 3:00 PM we started tapping. The sap is definitely moving in the trees. We see a good steady drip after setting the tap. Wish we would have taped last week. We would be collecting now. We did get 75 taps out by 4:30 PM. It was nice in the woods. The sun is warm. The snow is not too deep: maybe 8″. Tomorrow we hope to finish all the tapping. We have two or three helpers coming. The weather forecast sounds like it will be ideal for sap the next 5 days or so.

The tap from Saturday had about 2 quarts of sap. And it tasted very sweet. We were not able to formally test it with our hydrometer, but it seemed much sweeter than we normally get.