Awoke this morning to rain.  At one point over night there may have been snowflakes, but if you blinked you likely missed them.  In fairness, about 80 miles to the North they got 16”.  The warmer air dominated our weather while the colder air took over farther North.   It was cloudy all day with a high around 38.  Tonight we are getting a dusting of snow.  It won’t amount to much because we can see the quarter moon in the sky.

Into the woods by 8:15 AM.  It was a long day cooking.  Around 10:30 AM we prepared for finishing and bottling the three batches from yesterday.    That took until 1:00 PM.   We finished and bottled 23 quarts. 

Finishing and bottling diverted our focus from boiling on the evaporator.  The fires went down and we were not boiling as much per hour.  So it took longer to finish this evening.  We struggled to get good boils all afternoon.  Our tanks are empty.  The 400 gallons we collected is cooked through.  Got back to the house at 8:45 PM.  So 12 ½ hours today. 

Looks like we will collect tomorrow.