Into the woods by 10:30 AM.  The task for the day: all the taps out, all the buckets back to the farmhouse.  By 2:30 PM all the spouts were out and the buckets/covers gathered  to various points close to the trails for pickup.    Hopped on the utility vehicle to pickup the buckets/covers and bring them to the farmhouse.  Arranged the buckets, upside down, in 10 rows by 10 columns so we could get an accurate count.   We had 511 taps out.  Adjusted our “Season @ A Glance” widget from 507 to 511.

6 overnight.  Record cold for April 7.  Sunny and mid 30s during the day.  Some trees still dripping.  There was approx 100 gallons of sap we dumped.  It was mostly ice because at 6 sap does not stay liquid.   Quite possible that producers on vacuum will have additional sap runs.  If we had more time we may have let the buckets out.  Forecast for the week has freeze/thaw cycles.  And frost is still in the ground.

Back to the farmhouse by 6:30 PM.