Ok so just finished syruping off another WTF! batch...I was going to make a batch of nearup from 115l of sap but oh no, approx 50l of that sap stomped its foot and made it quite clear that it wanted to become syrup, dammit. So I turned the heat off, got the syruping rig ready, and currently looks like 2.5-3l of finished syrup. Thankfully it finished really fast and is sitting in the bain-maries, quietly dripping through.

Still bogged down here, I cancelled work tomorrow...my Friday client is a terrific person and grew up in the country, so she understands the need to stay home and boil like mad! On a plus note, bought a smallish brand-new garbage can for sap storage, there's currently 50l of home bush sitting in there. I am madly boiling off the virgin batch (note to self: DO NOT take on extra trees unless it's meant to be a BAD year!!) and 1/4 of CT's stock of 2l jars...but holy crap $20 per case of 6!!!! Gonna do some serious shopping around in the off-season for better prices. That's frickin crazy.

And yes still colllecting sap and storing it outside, and guess what, out of storage containers yet again...*groan* Hope the trees really rein it in tonight, I'm seriously bushed!