Into the woods by 8:00 AM get syrup on the finishing pan. While it heated we returned to the buckets. Finished taking down all the buckets and spouts by 3:00 PM however there was a break of several hours for bottling. The buckets and covers are still in the woods up side down to dry. We’re hoping for a window of dry weather the next few days so we can get them all in and stored for next season.
Syrup was ready by 10:30. Bottled 17 quarts and 1 pint. Its darker but sill looks nice.
We had snow squalls all day. A few minutes of intense snow then sunshine again. Nothing accumulated. But right now it snowing hard with ¼ to ½ inch accumulation. Everything is white again. Won’t last.
Once all the buckets were down we turned out attention to the evaporator. Took out about 15 gallons of sap. Expecting 2-3 gallons of syrup from it. Tomorrow we get a tank of water and start the fire to clean the pan while we finishing the remaining sap.
Back to house by 4:30 PM.
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