Snow overnight. Less than ½” but everything was snow covered. Sunny, but a little colder today, only 37. Had second thoughts about taking down the buckets because it felt like there should be sap today. Of course we were correct to take down the buckets. No sap. A few trees tried to run, but nothing significant.
Into the woods by 7:30 AM to empty the evaporator and finish all the sap. Had the pans emptied, rinsed and back on the evaporator by 9:30 AM. There was 15 gallons of sap to finish. It took until 1:45 PM to finish cooking it. The last batch was about 2 gallons. Bigger then expected. We isolated it into a separate milk can again because it’s much darker then the other syrup. We’ll bottle it separately.
Back to the farmhouse by 2:00 PM.