Unless something spectacular happens, the season is ending. After two nights of upper twenties and sunny days, the trees aren’t dripping. We went out collecting at 3:00 PM. Picked up sap that looked good dumped the rest. Got 70 gallons. We won’t use the R/O to cook it. Rain forecast for tomorrow. Weekend forecast shows freezing nights again, however we aren’t expecting sap because we didn’t get sap the past two days. Our season is ending. The season isn’t over until all cleanup is done.
Into the woods by 9:15 AM to bottle. This was the batch from the isolated 2018 milk can. The syrup looks good. We have 64 gallons now. Still approximately 5 gallons in the milk can. With the sap from the evaporator and what we collected today, we’ll finish with 72 or 73 gallons.
Back to the farmhouse by 4:30 PM.