A week and a half have passed and we are still just thinking about tapping trees. Daytime highs range from the high teens to mid-twenties. Eight inches of new snow overnight and through this morning driven by high winds not only cancelled school for the day, but kept the tapping crew out of the woods. The Twin Ports weather man warned us about -20 degree windchills tomorrow morning. The wait continues. During the next day or two we can snowshoe out  to the sugarhouse and shovel out (for the third time) the front and rear entrances along with the paths to the woodpile and the outhouse and the stand for the bulk tanks. We don't keep records of snow depths in the sugarbush, but I judge the current snow depth to be the deepest in the 10 years that we have been at this adventure. This year will most certainly mark the latest start to the syrup season.