*sigh* dang, when I win the lottery I'm gonna get me a helicopter and a Bambi bucket and fly around to all you who're dumping out sap and bring it home!!!

But I'm out of firewood now and already put 90% of my cleaned-up gear away. Ah well. Still have a few pails out there on OctoMom, got about 3l Manitoba maple sap and made about 30ml syrup :-) Have to pull the spiles tonight though.

BTW I have a few pics of a really weird tree in the corner of my lot. Going by the bark it's a birch of some sort, but looks nothing like 99% of all other birches I've seen!! I think it's a birch that wants to be a maple, it's huge and gnarly, branches going off in all directions. See my linky at bottom of signature.