Into the woods by 9:00 AM.\u00a0 Got the pans off the evaporator.\u00a0 Got a tank of water from the farmhouse.\u00a0 Rinsed the pans then placed back on the evaporator.\u00a0 Filled the flue pan with water.\u00a0 Syrup in the front pan.\u00a0 We finish the syrup in the front pan while boiling water the in the flue pan to clean it.<\/p>\n
About 11 gallons of partly cooked sap in the milk cans.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t take long to finish it.\u00a0 Our careful cooking Saturday paid off by reducing to almost done.\u00a0 By 1:45 PM it was ready to take off.\u00a0 About 5 gallons.\u00a0 \u00a0Puts us well past 90 gallons for the season.<\/p>\n
By 2:30 PM we went out to pickup the buckets and covers and get them back to storage.\u00a0 The sun was bright.\u00a0 Temperature 62.\u00a0 Dried the buckets from yesterday\u2019s rain.\u00a0 Getting the buckets back from the woods is a big item to complete.<\/p>\n
Running another wash cycle on the R\/O membrane.\u00a0 \u00a0Tomorrow we start cleaning the evaporator pans.<\/p>\n
Snow forecast for Wednesday into Thursday. Amounts depend on where the cold line will be.\u00a0 Farther North, we get rain or wintery mix.\u00a0 Farther South we get a lot of snow.<\/p>\n
Back to the farmhouse by 4:00 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n
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