Just popping in to say hello.Between the record amounts of snow, countless dangling branches from the christmas ice storm, and plain tiredness dealing with a 7-month-old who still insists on keeping me up at nights, I decided not to put in any taps this year. Such a hard decision.
I thought of putting just a few taps in - say 10-20, totally scaling it back. But, my big kid helpers eyed me suspiciously, knowing full well that I wouldn't be able to just stop at that number. haha.
Anyhow, I've still been following the weather...and just pulled up my last year's log. If the weather forecast is to be believed, there might still be a chance for a very decent season for y'all.
According to my log, by the 2nd week of March I'd made about 8L of syrup (from a week's collection of 340L) But then, we had a cold snap Mar 12-25. Then it went gangbusters from Mar 25-31. It was go go go with a 4 day break in April. The last week of collection (for me anyways) was Apr 4-7. After that, I pulled my taps and finished boiling what I collected - a hard week that was, since it rained ALL DAY ALL WEEK...one reason why I had to stop collecting and boiling. No shack no roof makes for difficult evaporating and a drowned-rat feeling.
So, wishing you all the best the next little while - it looks like it's going to be a busy week! fingers and toes crossed!
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Maaaaayyyybeee if my wood stove and cobbled-together concrete block arch weren't buried under 4 feet of ice and snow. Not to mention we're kinda low on nice dry logs for burning. 
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