We got another 1200 taps in on Saturday which means we have only 500 left to go - a short morning's work. We had to wait until late morning to start tapping because it was too cold. It barely got above freezing all day and there was not a drip out of a single tap. Yesterday while areas close to Lake Ontario were +10 C or better we were frozen solid at -5 C! Fine with me - we need another day to be completely ready.

Tapping on Saturday was a real challenge. The ice storm from Wednesday had up to a 1/2" of ice on everything! There were lots of small branches down but all appeared to be already dead and the weight just dropped them to the forest floor - which meant a lot of lines frozen into the crust! It was debatable if it was more of a pain to tap with snowshoes on or just wade through it.

Whomever is sending us the extra 20cm-30cm of snow tomorrow can keep it - we've got more than enough thank you.