20 overnight.  42 and sunny today.  Trees dripping.  There is run going on.  Plan to collect tomorrow so we get the complete run.  PSI up to 15.  Dropped to 7 PSI late afternoon.  Forecast for 30 tonight.

Into the woods by 6:30 AM.  Got the R/O going by 7:15 AM.  But it stopped shortly after starting.  That had us worried: we’ve grown dependent on the R/O.  We quickly realized it stopped because the  pipes froze up.  Liquid entering cold pipes can freeze.  Put the heat gun on the pipes for a few minutes and we were back in operation.

Six batches into the milk can today.  Nitre appeared in the pan.  That’s not surprising.  It was surprising that we didn’t have nitre before this.

All tanks empty.  Waiting for more sap.  Back to the farmhouse by 2:00 PM.