18 at 5:00 AM.  Everything frozen.  Ice on the evaporator.  Thankful we collected yesterday because today it would be ice in the buckets.  The valve on the tank was frozen.  Needed the heat gun to thaw.  Light snow flurries several times during the day.  Cloudy until 2:00 PM then the sun made an appearance and turned partly cloudy.

Into woods by 7:30 AM.  Done cooking by 2:30 PM.  Five batches in the milk can.  Back to the farmhouse by 3:15 PM.

We are entering a rainy pattern Friday, Saturday and Sunday.    We need 775 more gallons of sap to hit 75 gallons of syrup for the season.

3 ½ milk cans of syrup.  Tomorrow we will bottle.