Mar 8

It’s finally Friday! We had a really fun evening in the woods. Everyone a little joyous about it being the end of the week!! Glad to have Jack back, he looks a little like a glazed donut from the time change. There are lots of elves in the woods tonight and a good amount of sap. The Rine's were joined by Dean, Nancy, Ted, Adam, Susan B. and Mr. Boots (2 days in a row!), Ryan, Kevin, Dale and Karen. Brad drove and Dale dumped buckets most of the way. 

The boilermaker's horse was lame tonight, so he showed up late and got a little cranky when we told him he had to show up early tomorrow! The taps were dripping at a good clip tonight, so if it cools down this evening, tomorrow should be a great day.

We keep a sample of each 5 gallon bucket of syrup we take off of the evaporator. There has been little color variation and every bucket grades "fancy"-by industry standards, this is the best, we like the darker stuff a little better! Unusual to have that many buckets in a row of that grade.

Running 41.5 gallons of sap to each gallon of syrup according to the guy above.

We had lots of food tonight and made s’mores in the fire box for the first time. Fire box was allowed to burn down by 9:15 pm or so. Yea!

Total Sap: 2,392 gallons
Total Syrup: 50.5 gallons