Into the woods by 8:30 AM to start the burner on the finishing pan.   Bottled at 10:30 AM.  Then we finished and bottled a second milk can at 3:00 PM.

Also started the evaporator to boil down the remaining sap at 8:45 AM.   Took off one batch.   Then let the fire simmer in the afternoon.   Because its getting cold tonight again, we needed to empty the evaporator. Any sap in it would freeze and there is not enough left to start a fire to melt it.   After bottling the second batch we worked on emptying the evaporator.   Got all the sap into 1 ½ milk cans:  approximately 15 gallons to finish.   Took off the pans to rinse and drain.  The evaporator is empty now.  Once we get some warmer weather we need to fill it with water and cleaning solution, the restart a fire to warm it.  Planning cleanup around cold weather is a new step for us.

12 overnight.  Sunny and cold all day.  The sun was warm enough to cause melting but the temperature barely rose above 32.

Back to the farmhouse by 6:00 PM.