Eastern Ontario 2015

[Galena]

surprisingly I barely got anything the other day. I haven't collected any sap yet at all. This weather is starting to piss me off! lol

*scratching head* strange...I wouldn't have thought there would be much diff in temps and usually our runs pretty much sync. But maybe it's because Smiths Falls and area are a little more downslope than Oxford Mills and cooler air pools there?

And today was one freaky weird day for sap collection. Collected this morning from my 3 best trees; it rained all night so the sap ran quite well. Then after work went to go see the virgins, and those 3 had almost as much as my 3 big home trees!

Sunny today but mind, as there was also a lot of really strong wind today - 50km gusts I think - coupled with -3 cold, I wasn't expecting much - but the trees were, and are, running. And the sapcicles on all the spiles are freezing up so quickly in this cold gusty wind and literally plugging up the trees, that once broken off, the sap came flowing out immediately :-)

So all in all I have 14l to get down to nearup tonight...and yet more to collect soon from my trees.

Karen, I need to picka you brain re how long a tank of propane will last. I am getting close to that level where I will need the propane burner going!

ETA: Oh yes, that nice strong wind made sure a few empty pails were rolling around on the ground, and thanks to the sapcicles coming from the tap holes, I knew exactly where to replace the spiles.

Anyone want to guess what colour all those downed spiles were? All 5 of em?

So...if anyone wants to come visit, you can count on leaving with a handful of pretty blue spiles!!! No, really, I am going to keep the banged-up old metal ones. I may get some of the 5/16ths but it's gonna go back to all metal next year.