Only 42 overnight. Up to 54 during the day. Partly cloudy. A week ago we had 4 inches of snow with blowing and 18 followed by 0 or below for a few days. Forecast is for warm weather for the next few days. But there is still frost in the ground in the woods. That helps us.<\/p>\n
Into the woods by 7:00 AM. Cleaned the syrup pan. No nitre or sugar sand. Didn’t really need to clean it, but did as a precaution.<\/p>\n
By 8:00 had the fire going. By 8:10 started the R\/O. Sap out at 5 degrees Brix. By 10:50 the R\/O completed the 225 gallons in the storage tank. Pumped in the additional 85 gallons for the R\/O to process. All done by 1:00 PM. Doing a soap wash on the R\/O now. Looks like it may be a few days before we get more sap and the membrane should be cleaned if it sits idle.<\/p>\n
Back at the house by 4:00 PM. So 310 gallons in 8 hours. Without the R\/O it would take 16 hours.<\/p>\n
We lost track of how many batches we put in the milk can. 7 or 8. We have 2 full milk cans now for finishing and bottling. Plan to finish and bottle tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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