It appears to be quiet day in syrup country. It started raining or rain-mixed-with-snowing about 6:00AM today. The temperature is in the low 30's coming off an overnight low of at or just below freezing, which will probably make for another day without a sap flow. What flow there was yesterday "didn't amount to anything" (as Dad used to say, not necessarily about sap, but about lots of things) coming off a warm night Friday--warm in term of syrup making.

Yesterday, Rick and I finished evaporating the sap that we had on hand from Thursday and Friday. The "crew," in my absence, collected just under 100 gallons on Friday. During the day, also in my absence, Rick ran more than half of the 200 gallons of sap, that was collected on Thursday, through the evaporator. Yesterday, we put all remaining sap through the evaporator. We estimate that we have 6 gallons of "almost syrup" in the finisher.

Looking at the forecast, it now appears that it will be Tuesday before the weather cooperates and another sap flow can be expected.