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Our lake opened last weekend and the smelt have not run yet. I don’t see any clear nights until May. The full moon is May 5.

Looking at your forecast you have at least two days and maybe more that sap should flow. We reached 29° here today and you can see some buds starting on some of the maple trees. Have a look at the...

I am sitting on my dock in 21° weather watching the ice melt. Monday I stopped collecting and removed some taps. Monday night and Tuesday were warm. This morning it was supposed to ever so briefly...

I am all finished collecting and I am pulling some taps. I am boiling 131 gallons today. I did end up with more sap than last year and will end up with more syrup. I credit an early start and more...

The flow today is amazing, almost seems strange it will totally stop flowing tomorrow. I have only collected from a few pails today, I still have more pails and the three barrels to go. I suspect I...

Boiled yesterday. I also collected 56 gallons afterwards. I collected 66 gallons today, so I will have 122 gallons to boil Sunday. Sunday should be a great flow day (-7 to +9) and might be the last....

Boiled 106 gallons of sap today. I am just finishing it now. Long day.

I also collected 77.5 gallons, which is my second best collection of the season. The lines were still flowing after I...

Collected by far the most sap after a slow day yesterday and a big day today. Collected 106 gallons. Tomorrow will be a big boil day with 156 gallons of sap available to boil. I only see three boils...

Yikes I hope this changes!

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I was in Sudbury yesterday and drove home despite warnings the roads would be bad, which they were not. This is a picture of my daughter’s neighbour’s driveway today. It was bare yesterday. I am sure...

Well the weatherman got that wrong. Yesterday around noon time it was supposed to warm up and the snow turn to rain. It barely warmed up and we received 8 to 10 cms of heavy wet snow. It did warm...

-11° this morning and likely no flow today. The next two following days will be interesting. On Friday if the forecast holds, the sap will start to flow at noon. The weather actually warms overnight,...

Good luck with your first boil.

It warmed up here above freezing for about two hours, then a cold front moved in with colder temperatures, some snow and lots of wind. Our power is out. Our next...

I had my best collection day this season and just beating my last year’s best. I collected 86 gallons / 325 L. -8° last night and a forecasted +5 today, so it should be another good flow day.

I...

I had a peak at my barrels and my collection tomorrow morning will be greater than this mornings which was greater than the day before.

-6 tonight and +5 tomorrow, so that should be another good...

Thanks I will keep track of that. These right now are matching my last year’s best flow dates. I may yet pay the price for tapping early and the taps starting to close, but I am ahead of last year’s...

I made 10.75 L of syrup last night. I collected 68 gallons of sap this morning, my season’s best to date.

Last night went down to -6 and although today was forecasted to reach +4, it is now...

Today’s forecasted high was +4, but I think it reached +7. This morning I collected the most sap of the season and I am pretty sure that when I collect tomorrow morning it will beat this mornings...

Yesterday which did not look like a sap running day produced my greatest daily total so far of 60 gallons. Go figure. I am boiling today with 90 available gallons of sap to boil.

Last night only...

The lines are still running at 5 minutes to midnight. It will drop below freezing in the next hour with the lines full of sap.

I know the one barrel I have been checking has the most sap in it yet...

I have collected 43% of the sap I collected last year. Still no big flows and the only thing saving me is the number of taps. We have had a snow storm most of the day so far, but it is supposed to...

The sun miraculously came out and it all of a sudden warmed up to 4.3° and in the afternoon the sap started to run. I collected 33 gallons at 5 pm and it was still running 4 hours later.

I will...

Minimal flows yesterday for me. Today which had been forecasted to be +4 is now forecasted to be +2 and tomorrow which had been forecasted to be +8 is now +4.

The season will start when it...

For several days now they forecasted +1 for today, but it would be above freezing for about 7 hours. This morning the forecast said it would reach +3. It rose to +1 quickly this morning in the...

My neighbour’s are tapping Monday or Tuesday, likely Tuesday.

I will be boiling Tuesday or Wednesday depending on Monday’s flows.

I had a 60 watt bulb in a trouble light under my pan. It did...