Well - it's back to work for me after a good March Break off. We boiled Saturday through Wednesday, then had Thursday through Saturday off so cut firewood instead. Had enough sap again by Sunday to boil, even though it was -19C in the morning. I still have about 80 gallons of sap (ice?) in the tank to boil later today. I think we've boiled about 300 gallons of sap so far. The first 120 sweeten the evaporator, after which about 25 liters of syrup has come out.

Our first runs were low on sugar (determined by the tried and true tongue taste test method) but mid-week made up for it with 2 nights that froze just enough to discard the ice when collecting. Syrup has been light to date. We have some goods days in the near term forecast, so we're expecting to have lots of sap by the end of the week and with cold nights forecasted, we should be seeing light syrup for another week at least.

Here's wishing for cold nights and warm days for another few weeks at least.