Into the woods by 6:00 AM to cook. Thunderstorm overnight means more snow based on folklore. Cloudy with rain and drizzle all day. Temperature 54 at 7:00 AM. Dropped to the mid 40s by afternoon.
No problems with the R/O. Tried to maintain 7 Brix. Boiling wasn’t intense until we mixed hardwood with the pine and cedar. Softwood burns too quickly.
The day cooking.
6:35 R/O start
7:00 2”
8:00 4”
8:15 batch
9:00 6”
9:40 batch
10:00 6 ½”
11:00 batch
11:00 8 ½”
11:10 R/O done
12:00 6 ½”
1:00 4”
2:00 1 ¾”
2:25 batch
2:35 done
Back to the farmhouse by 2:45 PM. Temperatures in the high 40s low 50s the next three days. Not sap weather.