Into the woods by 8:30 AM to bottle.  First milk can bottled by 11:45 AM.  Then finished and bottled a second milk can.  We still have one milk can of syrup to finish but we have room with two empty milk cans.

At 3:00 PM we went out collecting.  Not collecting yesterday turned out to be the correct decision.  The sap run finished overnight.  When we went out today the trees were not dripping much so we got the whole run.   The new hoses for the new pump arrived.  Just what we needed: flexible and food grade.  The new pump emptied the tank in 8 minutes.  We finished collecting by 4:30 PM.  Four experienced people make short work of it but the new pump also saved us 30 minutes.

Rain overnight.  Mid-30s.  Showers this morning then cloudy most of the day.  Upper 40s.  By 5:00 PM the sun appeared.  The ground is finally starting to get soft: the frost is coming out.

Forecast is 30 overnight and sunny and 50 tomorrow.     Back to the farmhouse by 5:15 PM.