Since the last post, March came in like a big fat lion with a wet windy snow on March 1st that remains on the north side of all of the trees despite a couple of afternoons of warm sun. We have spent some of our down time talking with the neighbors ....all are having a somewhat strange syrup season. Not great runs, but not terrible either.
Saturday March 3rd, Brad picked up piles of scrap lumber all over the camp and stacked them. He and Bob got the first part of the protective covering over the big overhead door.
We decided there was not enough sap to wear out the help collecting on Saturday.
Sunday afternoon was bright and sunny! Still really cool car-hart weather. We decided to gather early at 2:30 with Adam, Nancy, Morgan, Melissa, Chris, Brad, Gerri and Bob. We found a disappointing 270 gallons of sap throughout the whole woods. BUT, it was crystal clear and tasted good leading us to believe the trees had "reset" a bit. The soft maples in the woods are essentially done. The woods remains a very, very wet place to tromp through. Lots of buckets laying down from wind today.
We boiled in the 270 above and 22 gallons that Katie and Adam brought.
We tried pancakes and sausage on the new griddle, worked out pretty good.
Tonight was 4-H, leaving Adam and Brad (and later Katie) to finish boiling. They seemed to encourage Bob to leave. His parting words to them were inspirational and motivational: "DO NOT SCREW UP". Brad replied on behalf of them all "WE GOT THIS".
Bob took a video, ya know, just in case he never saw it again, on his way out!
Total sap today: 270 plus 22
Total sap to date: 2,075 plus 109
Total syrup off today: 4.5 gallons
Total Syrup off to date: 28.5 gallons
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