Didn’t freeze last night.  Today started foggy;  then rain moved in.  There is a large slow moving low pressure system in the middle of the country that is pulling warm air to the north.  Its dominating our weather now and will until about Sunday.    Its brining cloudy, warm days of 45 or so, nights that don’t  freeze, and drizzle or rain.  Maybe even a thunder storm.  

It was 10:30 AM before we went into the woods.  Since we have a spell of warmer weather we decided to make a run though the woods to pick up any sap there.  It won’t keep with the warmer weather so better to pick it up.  And this may be a season where we have to fight for every quart of finished maple syrup.  There was not a lot of sap in the buckets.  A few with a quart of sap.  Many with only a cup.  A few full, but those were most likely missed in the prior collection.     In end we collected 50 gallons of sap: enough to make five quarts of maple syrup.