Eastern Ontario 2016

[Big_Eddy]

If I've learned anything about maple syruping over the years, it's the following.

• If you like the what you see in the weather forecast - it will change before it arrives.
• If you don't like what you see in the weather forecast - it too will change.
  
• If you take a week off when the kids are home for March break, sap won't run - but it will Monday when you go back to work.
• If you have to go out of town for a day - sap will run like crazy.
• When you finally get so much sap you boil all night to get caught up - cause it's going to be another great day tomorrow - all your trees will stop flowing and you'll be sitting looking at empty tanks.

I've given up trying to predict the season. I make syrup while the sap flows.

As usual, I took March Break off to make syrup while my youngest was off school.
We collected a grand total of 7 gallons of sap between Monday and Friday, then a bit more Saturday and boiled just ONCE on Sunday morning for about an hour.
Sunday night the trees opened up and we dragged home about 50 gallons last night in time for me to go back to work today. This week's forecast looks great.

This year's sample bottles in order from left to right. The Sunday boil was too small to bottle on its own.