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We had some kind of frost last night again so should get some kind of sap today.If I do it would be the first time I got sap 3 days in a row.Two is the best I have done all season and its supposed to get really cold tonight so I should be swamped by tommorrow night.
Saw this in the news today.
4/10/2009 UPC- Toronto - NASA Scientists Puzzled Over Gas Cloud
NASA Scientists were puzzled yesterday by unusual gas clouds over an area of southern Quecec yesterday. The ERDATZ Global Mapping Satellite, launched by NASA in 2005, was performing a standard mapping run when it detected the unusual gas clouds. While the satellite was originally designed to map forest types and land use patterns, NASA has been studying weather phenomenon over the last six months and has been mapping North America for a NOAA Weather model.
After a field visit by NASA personnel, the gas clouds we traced to a new Maple Syrup producer in the small town of Ayer's Cliff, Quebec. While the producer's name has been withheld pending investigation, authorities have stated that the producer has a small operation of just over 100 taps, and a homebuilt setup with stainless steel pots.
"It appears that the unusually high volume sap runs, combined by the boiling of Box Elder Sap and the sap of various maple trees contributed to the phenomenon", said NASA Spokesman Nick Tubin.
Several small tornados were also spawned by the massive sap clouds which caused damage in several sugarbushes in nearby Newport Vermont. A spokesman for the Vermont Sugarmakers Association is considering civil charges against the Ayer's Cliff sugarmaker for the damage.
Very funny. If I only could find about a 1000 buckets today I could really make clouds. I discovered a whole stand of sugar maples all with not buds all standing alone out in the bush today. I could make about a truck load of syrup with them. I need to hide my drill.
Ken, you gonna be busy today. All my higher elevation buckets are running grrreat with nice clear, tasty sap and some will be running over by mid-afternoon.
My lower elevation sugarbush in Littleton of 650 is running at half-speed though.
I'm guessing I can pull the grade back from B into Dark Amber although it will probably still taste like B.
108 gallons and counting here.
I ran out of sap storage. trying to boil my way out of it some how. I am working on 12 and 13 gallons right now.
Ended up with about 225 gallons of sap today, as my main bush is slowing down. Still grading out at Dark Amber.
Since Sunday afternoon I've only gotten about 500 gal. of sap from the bush, so I'm calling it quits. Boiled almost 1000 gal. this evening. Many of the buckets are still running well, but probably not much longer with no freezes in sight. Sugar is down to 2% on roadsides and 1.2% from the bush. I should finish with a full 55 drum of mersh, so I guess it was worth it to keep on the last few days.
Tim
I have way to much sap right now so am looking to pull taps on budded or budding trees to cut down the volume. Been a pretty good year for a first timer.