It was cold last night, down to about 19.  That freezes everything so hard that it takes a long time to warm up during the day.  It was sunny today and up to 37 or so.  The trees were dripping.  Walked through the woods this afternoon.  A few pails were full.  Many are half full.  We will collect tomorrow.    We would have collected today if we had help lined up. 

Spent the day getting the building ready.  We had to replace some damaged fire brick in the evaporator.  Also worked on getting the niter out of the syrup pan.  Its hand scrubbing with at fine abrasive. 

Tomorrow we have to get water tot he building and wash out the tanks for collecting. 

Just wish it wouldn’t get so cold at night because it freezes everything so hard.