Awoke this morning to rain.\u00a0 At one point over night there may have been snowflakes, but if you blinked you likely missed them.\u00a0 In fairness, about 80 miles to the North they got 16\u201d.\u00a0 The warmer air dominated our weather while the colder air took over farther North.\u00a0\u00a0 It was cloudy all day with a high around 38.\u00a0 Tonight we are getting a dusting of snow.\u00a0 It won’t amount to much because we can see the quarter moon in the sky.<\/p>\n
Into the woods by 8:15 AM.\u00a0 It was a long day cooking.\u00a0 Around 10:30 AM we prepared for finishing and bottling the three batches from yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That took until 1:00 PM.\u00a0\u00a0 We finished and bottled 23 quarts.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Finishing and bottling diverted our focus from boiling on the evaporator.\u00a0 The fires went down and we were not boiling as much per hour.\u00a0 So it took longer to finish this evening.\u00a0 We struggled to get good boils all afternoon.\u00a0 Our tanks are empty.\u00a0 The 400 gallons we collected is cooked through.\u00a0 Got back to the house at 8:45 PM.\u00a0 So 12 \u00bd hours today.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Looks like we will collect tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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