Its March 18th.  Its not supposed to be 65 degrees.  Its way too warm.  There are a few small snow piles that are desperately clinging on in the face of the warm weather but for the most part the snow is gone.   We are waiting for Friday when the weather is forecast to change back to normal, which is about 20 degrees cooler.    And hoping the trees will respond.

Today was spent cooking down the sap from yesterday.  Started at 5:00 AM.  The tanks are empty now.  We bottled 23 quarts and 1 pint.  Our total for the season is now 116 quarts which is  29 gallons of finished syrup.