Thursday March 22, 2018


Cool today and a little breeze with a temp of about 38 degrees, but the sun was out and the sap did run some. Surprisingly, it also ran yesterday!

Jack went out and collected a few buckets on his own, with the truck no less. That is a sign that it is really dry in the woods right now.

Bob headed through the "short north path and was joined half way by Gary and Michelle.

Dale and Karen brought Frank back to inspect the operation and he of course ended up helping. Chris, Susan B, Adam, Katie and Gerri rounded out the crew. Similar amount of sap but made lighter work with more hands tonight and somewhat easy walking.

We found 340 gallons and 11 came from twp rd 178 and Chris brought 10 from the "weasner woods". Jack made some sap ice cubes so we can preserve some syrup to more convenient times to boil. We put Chris's sap outdoors to freeze a bit tonight to help with this as well.


Katie was a little disappointed that she and Susan disappeared from the group for about 20 min and there seemed to be nobody looking FOR them. Bob was quick to point out, that had they listened to his directions, they would not have been lost.

Waiting on Wally

Hot dogs and chicken salad were enjoyed by some. Nice night to sit and visit and watch Adam work....HAHA. Bob is rested enough that he is warning of next years "tapping training session". He has an a photo collection of all of the tapping transgressions of this year. He stopped short of fingerprinting but the interrogation (we have all known was coming) started tonight with Katie.

Best seat in the house!

Monday night got pretty late so we decided with the cool temp tonight to shut things down early. Home by 10pm!!

Total sap today: 340 plus 11 plus 10

Total sap to date: 3,685 gallons plus196 plus 10

 otal syrup off today: 2 gallons

Total syrup off to date: 61.5 gallons