Into the woods by 7:45 AM.   Cleaned the syrup pan on the evaporator.   By 8:30 had the fire going.  By 9:00  running sap in.  Our goal was to empty the 225 gallons storage tank.   By 7:00 PM we were empty.  That was 10 hours of cooking.  A good day.  Made possible by dry wood.  Gathered many months before to have it handy at the door.  The wood is at least two years old so it nice and dry.  It burns hot and gives good boils.  Its nice to see rolling boils on the entire flu pan.

 

And old school because of trouble with the R/O.  Well mostly trouble with the membrane on the R/O.  We are waiting for the manufacturer to get back to us about what to do.   But we had to start cooking while waiting.

 

About 30 overnight.  Started cloudy. Sun appeared by 11:00 AM for few hours.  Temperature rose quickly to the 50s.  Trees did not run much.    Overnight about 30 again. Tomorrow a little cooler.

 

Tomorrow will be a busy day.   Water run in the morning.  Cook all day to empty the next 225 gallons of sap from Thursday.  Hope to finish that by 7:00 or 8:00 PM.   We must bottle.  We have 2 milk cans of syrup to finish and bottle.  And collect about 3:00 PM.