Sunday February 28, 2016

Day #10

Gorgeous sunny day! Bob checked buckets just prior to church and found several inches so he decided given that, and the wind forcast, to gather early today.

We left the camp about 1215 with Mr. B (back for more!)  up on bucket patrol on Wallie with Brad driving. Muff, Dean, Gerri, Adam, Mark, Susan and Julius. The buckets were a little fuller than yesterday. Kept one eye up in the air to watch for branches shaking loose in the wind. Pretty noisy today, hard to talk as we walked.

The sun peaked in the open roof.

George, Katherine , Nathan, Nicholas and Karaline joined us in the middle of the south path. The kids enjoyed the walk and were good help. Duck proudly attempted to tromp through each and every mud puddle. Bob said the missed photo of the day was him emptying the water out of his boots!

James showed up to help finish up. We gave Julius the grand tour of the camp and visited and ate. The camp felt like a nice sauna today. We had a total of 450 gallons with 20 from Sandhill Rd.

 
 

 
 

 

Bob said the evaporator ran through about 90 gallons per hour. The hose filling the back pan could not keep up at times so they hand carried in buckets of sap.

Bob attempted a brief nap, lasted about 5 min.

Total sap today: 450 gallons plus 20 gallons from Sandhill Rd
Total sap to date:  2275  gallons
Total syrup today: 8 gallons today
Ttoal Syrup to date: 41 gallons to date