make the tour tonight, only 35 ltrs from 100 taps...Tomorrow the real start :rolleyes:
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make the tour tonight, only 35 ltrs from 100 taps...Tomorrow the real start :rolleyes:
I don't know what it was like at my cottage, (35km north of Lachute)
But damm it was nice here in Montreal, almost Tee shirt weather
hoping for pails of sap LOL
84 liters from 100 taps today. Crazy meteo call for 8 inches of snow in mountain area where i am ..never ending winter supose to be spring ?
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taken at 4h00 today
Snowed here all day and some trees still ran .Slowly getting enough sap to make boiling worth while. Got the evaporator going for a couple of hours last night just to empty some space.
we did pretty good this weekend
we got more than 35 gallons of sap
& boy were they running when I left today
Too bad I twisted my ankle yesterday so I did not boil today (Sunday) too bad it was gorgeous , what a waste
well with the new barrel evap I set a new record for us anyways , wife was real happy
started the fire at 10 am. we were finished bottling at 5:30
total 6 litres!!! a nice amber colour
i love my new baby
Trees hardley ran today but it did not freeze last night.Got most of my sap boiled off today and made a couple of gallons of syrup. Because of the higher sugar content this year the syrup is lighter and tastes different then past years.Will see how it makes butter and sugar.
Freeze hard last night here, tree start at 11h00 to drip collect 100 liters of sap this afternoon. Nice sunny day but heavy winds stop tree dripping after
4h00. Will boil tomorrow.
Collect iced bucket this morning, snow and windy again...
Boiled all sap and ice this afternoon, make 2 1/2 Gal. syrup.
Completely Crazy meteo call for temps going up to +11c this night, and
cold again tomorrow max +3c, rain and SNOW...:razz:
According to the thermometer it didn't freeze here last night but the trees did not to bad today.Go figure. Is only 3 degrees here right now and they say it's supposed to be 9 degrees. if the weather man says it is raining I go look for myself lately.
Okay I have had enough snow and winter to last a lifetime.Trees ran last night and stopped today.We need a actual frost now.
This weather has given me a migraine for two days now.Not much getting done except me complaining.