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♩♫ Alllllllll by myyyyyyself ♫♩

One more boil on my docket, see y'all next year!

That's what I found, there was sap but it was almost all frozen from the last two weeks. Emptied and reset buckets. Sugar content continues to be marginal this year.

I expect a great week this...

I expect so, skipped the snow this week but there have been several single digit temps so I expect frozen solid sap, if any, this coming weekend. Silvers were still going but low sugar, so I pulled...

On point advice here. I'll add cloudy sap as a sign, but cloudy sap just makes me taste it to be sure.

I'm just a bit north of Princeton, I have not checked sap since Sunday but my feeling is the...

Only 3 gallon per tap in Central MN, last Sunday-Saturday. Crazy flow on a few today 2-2.5 gallons in about 16 hours. Lower than I usually get 2-2.5% sugar.

If the long range forecasts are to believed, we are in the the prime weather this week and its not going to be a long season. Get while the getting is good.

Tapped two weeks ago just north of Princeton. 18 gallons sap first week, 60 the second. 20 or so taps on flood plain silvers. Low sugar even with a lot of freezing water cast off. With no snow the...

My sugar-bush was still frozen, but its close. Tapped and waiting on the first 15.

Alright, never-mind. Hold my beer, I'm tapping tmw. Looking like a solid week and half window. Going to pick some big silvers so I can put another tap in later if the season goes long. I also predict...

I'm seeing competing models for me south of Mille Lacs. One model says warm up, the other says we got a week of 30s but it gets quite cold again. I'd hold off, personally.

Rum receded off my flood plain today. Bluff trees have been producing, not yet buddy. Trees still all over the place on output, low sugar. Very grumpy. One more boil Tuesday and I'm calling it.

Pretty heavy flow the last two days. Weekend is shaping up to potentially have some more. Finally some decent weather, and thank heavens for slow, grumpy black maples still groggy from winter's...

Replaced my buckets on trees not underwater. I think there is another run in them with a 23F low tomorrow night. Hard to believe. I already matched last year's total, so this is all gravy.

I see 28f low on Sunday. Is that enough to produce a run?

I pulled my buckets on Tuesday. Ended up with 6 gallons Saturday-Tuesday. Not a disaster, so I am pleased overall. Prefer a 6 week season...

Tuesday-Friday's forecast show two high 60's and two 70's highs and mid-40s lows south of Mille Lacs. I'm not seeing it.

I'm planning on Tuesday being the last day of the season. I tapped another...

Disaster all around. Sap flowed well as the beginning of last week, barely going again yesterday after the cold snap. Season over by EOW if the weather forecast holds. Very disappointing. My trees...

Pretty much what I found today south of Milaca. Via snowshoes and a sled, wet holes on black, silver and red maples, with slow flow. I tend to think its still early. 2-3ft snow-pack still and a...

More snow Thursday? **sigh**

Haven't tried. Snow too deep. At this point I'm resigned to wait until the weekend of the 18th to tap. That following week looks perfecto.

Sugar maples? Silvers?

Still too much snow last weekend for me, I was gung-ho, but reality set in. That, and my UTV got stuck instantly. The snow really sticks around in the denser woods along the...

Probably nothing, lol.

Predictions just keep going up - five 35f+ degree days now forecast Saturday-Wednesday up by me. I find it hard to believe my silver maples on the river are not going to be awake, especially with a...

Not entirely ready, next week looks promising up Mille Lacs way. Probably drop a few taps on Sunday on the river adjacent silver maples. Debuting a Smoky Lake StarCat this year. Still working on a...

Buckets set back last night. Cautiously optimistic on 6 days of favorable temps to end the season.

Last hard freeze was Friday night, Sap was flowing well on Saturday and even on Sunday with a 32-ish low. 50's Sat-Tuesday, 40's Wednesday with a hard freeze and then back to nightly freeze and...