Sunny days and freezing nights are supposed to give sap flows.  We are getting some sap but not as much as hoped given the weather pattern.  Something else besides just sunny day and freezing night must be needed for sap flows.  It was not as cold last night.  Only into the low 20s.  And up to about 50 during the day.  Again it was sunny.  The sap moved, but not enough to collect.  There was a quart to two quarts in most pails.  We plan to collect tomorrow.

We did boil today.  And bottled again.  We started boiling at 7:30 AM with the goal of emptying the storage tanks.  That meant pushing through 300 gallons of sap.  By 11:30 AM we took off the first batch of syrup.   By 3:30 PM the second batch was ready.  We finished and bottle both batches together which gave us 26 quarts and 1 pint.

We didn’t expect any more syrup but by 8:00 PM another batch was ready.  We took it off the evaporator but did not finish and bottle it.   

By 10: 00 PM we were back in the house.  So it was a 14 ½ hour day.