Fog and rain today made the woods sloppy.  The snow is melting again.  It didn’t rain hard, but enough to make it sloppy.

Checked the buckets about 10:00 AM.  As expected the trees ran most of the night.  Only down to 30 overnight so not a hard freeze.  By dawn it was above freezing and the trees responded.  Most buckets over half full. Many were full.

Planned to head out collecting by 2:30 but we had to get the tanks ready.  Got water to the woods in the milk cans.  Washed stainless storage tanks.  Washed collecting tanks.    It was raining off and on too.  We were ready by 2:30.

We picked up 575 gallons of sap.  Good haul.  Tomorrow want to get the R/O ready and start cooking.

Tonight more snow is expected.  4”-6”.   And then turns colder and windy.  So crumby weather.