Into the woods by 9:00 AM.  By 9:30 we had a boil.  But there was a build up of nitre on the pan that caused the syrup pan to foam up while boiling.  Its difficult to boil hard when there is a constant fear of boiling over.   The only thing to do is take the pan off and clean it.  So this morning was a false start.    After the pan was cleaned boiling was much better. 

We took a batch off the evaporator about 11:30 AM.  We were hoping for a second batch today too.   We had to mange that carefully because we did not have a lot of sap in the tanks.  We pulled the siphon in order to get the batch done sooner.  With the siphon out no fresh sap came into the pan and it could boil down to destiny.    By 5:30 PM we took the batch off.  There was just enough sap in the tanks to fill the evaporator at the end of the day. 

Then we finished and bottled both batches.  22 quarts 1 pint and 1 250 ml bottle.  We now have about 214 quarts:  53 ½ gallons.

We did head out with the tractor and milk cans to collect what ever sap might be there.   A few taps are running some yet.   We ended up with 30 gallons of sap.   This is pretty much it.  We will likely pull the taps starting tomorrow. 

The weather forecast for the week is for much warmer weather.  By the end of the week into the 70s.   That is not sap weather.   Its pretty clear this will be the end of the season.