Filled up a 20 gallon garbage can in 48 hours from our 12 measley Freeman and Silver maples. Of course, it'll boil down to only about a litre of syrup, but pretty cool to finally see things start to get rolling. Hoping for a boil down this weekend and cooler weather forecasted should slow things down a bit.

Question though, seems the trees are budding already, not sure, but look like the leaf buds are starting early this year....anyone have opinions as I've understood that once the budding starts the syrup season is soon over. Anybody else have trees "budding"?

Turkey John