Down to the 20s overnight, but again warmed to the mid 40s.  Sunny all day.  We were expecting clouds to move in after noon.  Into the woods by 8:30 AM to start boiling.  Boiled down over 200 gallons.  About that much remains yet.  Took four batches off the evaporator.   The milk can is full of syrup. 

Tomorrow and Sunday will be busy days.  Tomorrow we have to cook, collect and bottle.  We have now about 8 gallons to bottle.  We expect to collect over 400 gallons of sap tomorrow.  We should maybe have collected today but we couldn’t get help and did not feel like collecting the woods solo again.  And we have to cook down the 200 gallons we have plus the fresh sap we collect tomorrow.    It will be a full scale operation of all phases of syrup production.