20 overnight.  43 and sunny today.  Above 32 by 9:30 AM.  Trees started dripping.  By Noon, dripping at a good rate with PSI up to 15.  We will wait to collect until tomorrow to catch the complete run.
 
Into the woods by 8:00 AM to empty a milk can into the finishing pan.  It was ready by 9:30 AM.  Filtered and started bottling.  But didn’t watch temperature carefully and the syrup got too hot and precipitated out particles making it cloudy.  We were about half done.  Stopped bottling this batch.    Back into the finishing pan along with half of milk can of syrup to finish and filter again.  Every year we seem to mess up a batch.  The syrup is good, its just more work to cut back density with sap, re-finish and re-filter.   We only bottled 1 ½ milk cans.  The plan was to bottle two milk cans.
 
The trees will drip into the late evening.  Forecast low is 30.
 
Back to the farmhouse by 3:00 PM.