It looks and feels like the 2011 syrup season may be over. Over the weekend, we finished up everything that we had on hand. There was no sap flow on Sunday. The 60 gallons we collected on Saturday were quite cloudy, but it tasted okay. We worked until early evening on Sunday and finished the season, if in fact this is the end, with 32 and 1/2 gallons of syrup.

It was late in the day and two of threesome needed to be back to regular jobs and stuff today, so we scheduled the first clean-up of the season for the 19th, when we can all be together again. I plan to keep an eye on the overnight temperatures which are forecast to be in the high 20's late this week. I am curious to see if there is a flow at that time and if the sap is of syrup quality.

The ice went out of the bay mid-morning today. It simply disappeared. It must have been mortally weakened by yesterday's early morning rain and warm temperatures through last night.