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Hey Galena,
Good to be back on the board, we might skip again this year (tapped last year but skipped the year before) due to more renos and work.
But we will see, the warmer weather sure had me...

Hi everyone!
What a weird winter.....logged in this morning to see what others were doing.
We were out splitting firewood for next year and boy did it feel like a "sugrain' day".
We will wait...

Same to you Galena! I hope all goes well on your end....

Been meaning to post for a few days now, where does the time go!
We boiled every night last week minus Friday evening.
With the cold weather coming over the weekend (from last week's perspective)...

Did a couple of boil down nights, we've collected ~340 liters of sap to date and have boiled it all, getting close to bottling time for us.
I'll try to post up some pics later this week.
Thanks Big...

As of yesterday evening we have almost 200 liters sitting in the gravity tank, we will start our boil to work towards sweetening the pan today (Friday).

Nice Eddy!
We collected another 25 liters today, I was surprised the trees were dripping as well as they were considering how gloomy it was all day and snow fall as I collected!

We got everything up on trees today by 1:00pm, 21 buckets total this year.
Some trees flowing quite well, some barely dripping.
What a gorgeous day to be outside, 3-4 degC and sunny all day!
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Hey @Galena, thanks! Good to be back!

Got all our buckets and spiles out and cleaned off last night, might start drilling / hanging tonight or tomorrow.

Well, I was going to hold off for one more week but now you all have me thinking otherwise!
Maybe we'll pull everything out of storage and start getting ready......good luck to everyone this season.

Hello everyone!

It's -11C here (Oxford Mills) this morning and the snow is coming down sideways lol, no tapping for us quite yet.
Hope everyone has been keeping well, thanks for starting this...

Another long but productive day for us yesterday....
We finished off what sap we had left, which resulted in 6 litres of tasty gold.
We pulled all our taps and started the cleanup process, which...

Wow a good run today, collected 62 litres at noon and just collected another 55 this evening.
Boiling again tomorrow then we may shut down for the season.......

Thanks 4walls, good to know.....
Our forecast down here (south of Ottawa) took a turn for the better with a number of cooler nights ahead (previous forecast showed many above zero nights in a row)...

Nice job Silver Water!

A long day yesterday......
Our work resulted in 12.75 L of finished syrup, we're happy with this as our first batch.
After cleaning up and getting ready for round #2 we plopped in-front of the TV...

Welcome to the forum Coatsey
Galena -> We'd send our girls over to help you but I'm slaving (err I mean putting them to work) on our operation today lol

Started a boil again this morning, total...

Trees finally woke up again this afternoon.
Buckets were dead empty this morning and had been since Tuesday but we collected 43 L tonight.
Galena-> glad to see you decided to tap.....

Awesome, thanks folks.....
Our season down here (south of Ottawa) looks like it might be coming to an early end (like mentioned though the forecast changes every hour so who knows).
As a result we...

Anyone tapping in the North Bay / Mattawa area yet?

Holy wow! That's amazing, your operation must be something to see running.......glad you're off to a great start.

Collected yesterday afternoon while boiling, we're now right at 200L of sap collected since last Monday when we first tapped.

Boiled until ~7:30pm (off and on as my focus gets interrupted a bit...

Boiling this afternoon, gorgeous weather, could be cooler but we get what we get.....

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We run a small continuous flow pan and take nearly 250-300 L (depending on incoming sap brix) to start drawing off. Once you start drawing then the next drawing will be much quicker, obviously.
And...

Right on Big_Eddy!
We collected another bit last night, we're now at a total of 77 liters of sap.
Water tested the new gravity tank yesterday, cleaned all the pans and finished up organizing....