The 2011 Maple Syrup Season will start soon.  We plan to tap the week of 1 March.  Our supplies are ordered and at hand.  The buckets are washed.  We had a proper winter with snow and cold.  Even the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl.   Now we wait for the weather to break from the cold grip of winter to the changeable weather pattern of March that maple trees need to give us their sap.