As of last night, we have put almost 400 gallons of sap through the evaporator. My two partners will be finishing and bottling the syrup from that effort later today. At that time we will have an idea as to the grade and/or quality of this year's final product.

We are looking for a couple of cold nights with low temperatures near 20 degrees, which will hopefully rejuvenate the flow. The forecast is not particularly promising. We are old men; we have come to accept the reality that we don't often get what we want. On the other hand we have the resiliency to make due with what comes our way.