We collected the first 200 gallons of sap for the season. Looked at the buckets at about 9:30 am. A few were full. Quite a few had 2 quarts. So we got the tractor and hooked up the collecting tank and went out to collect. Its a bit hard walking through the snow. Sometimes the frozen crust holds you.  Other times it breaks.  Its up and down and up and down. And it fills your boots. By 11:45 we had 200 gallons of sap. And there were still some buckets to empty, but they will wait until tomorrow.

Today’s count:
400 taps
200 gallons of sap collected
0 quarts of finished syrup
A “dusting” of snow