The day started cold and sunny again. Down to 12 last night. It stayed sunny all day and climbed to 38. The sap did not run much. But that gave us a chance to catch up. We boiled all day. Bottled 21 more quarts. At the end of the day the pipe on the collecting tank thawed enough that we could use it to pickup what we did not collect yesterday. Picked up 90 gallons. We dumped the ice from the buckets or there would have been much more than 90 gallons. Dumping ice actually helps us. The ice is water which we do not have to boil out. Ice makes the sap sweeter. Snow is predicted for this evening after mid-night. Maybe an inch.

Today’s count
21 quarts of syrup bottled
90 gallons of sap collected
8 visitors
2 candy thermometers