Only 42 overnight.  Up to 54 during the day.  Partly cloudy.   A week ago we had 4 inches of snow with blowing and 18 followed by 0 or below for a few days.   Forecast is for warm weather for the next few days.  But there is still frost in the ground in the woods.  That helps us.

Into the woods by 7:00 AM.  Cleaned the syrup pan.  No nitre or sugar sand.  Didn’t really need to clean it, but did as a precaution.

By 8:00 had the fire going.  By 8:10 started the R/O.  Sap out at 5 degrees Brix.  By 10:50 the R/O completed the 225 gallons in the storage tank.   Pumped in the additional 85 gallons for the R/O to process.  All done by 1:00 PM.    Doing a soap wash on the R/O now.  Looks like it may be a few days before we get more sap and the membrane should be cleaned if it sits idle.

Back at the house by 4:00 PM.  So 310 gallons in 8 hours.  Without the R/O it would take 16 hours.

We lost track of how many batches we put in the milk can.  7 or 8.   We have 2 full milk cans now for finishing and bottling.  Plan to finish and bottle tomorrow.