3 overnight. Up to 38 during the day, but it was cloudy. And with the cold days the trees need to time to warm up again. No sap.
Into the woods by 2:00 PM to clean the kitchen. Then by 3:30 emptied the milk can into the finishing pan and started the burners. Take about 2 hours to finish. Got all our bottling equipment ready while waiting for the syrup to finish. We go a new hydrometer this year. It has both the Baume and Brix scales.
By 5:30 the syrup was ready. Filtered it. Then into the bottling pan. We bottled 30 quarts. Back to the house by 7:30 PM.
Its snowing this evening. 2-4 inches expected. Tomorrow up to 38 again, but cloudy. Looks like Sunday may be a sap day with partly sunny and 41 forecast.
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