Sunday was again a nice day: sunny and warm, highs near 50. It gets quite warm working in the woods. But the warm days help settle the snow. There is about 18 inches of snow in the woods. We always need water to wash out equipment. Without a well on-site that means hauling water with the tractor. Well, Dean got smart. He noticed that the snow melting from the wood shed roof was just running onto the ground. So he put a milk can under the gutter to catch the snow melt. We filled two milk cans, 20 gallons of water. We finished tapping the last 125. Actually a few more. The total tapped is about 418. We always seem to loose exact count. By 3:00 the tapping was complete. And then it was time to collect.

The trees tapped on Saturday had dripped enough to collect. So we cleaned out the collecting tank and storage tanks and set out. We collected about 175 gallons of sap. Pumped it into the storage tanks and called it a day. We will start boiling on Monday. The weather for the coming week is to turn cold again. Nothing we can do about that. March weather is always changing.