Sap flow continues to be very sloooow. Sap still cloudy, but was able to pump the woods tank down and brush it out, so hopefully it clears up, and stays clear now that it's cooled down and the skies are cloudy. Hoping with this weekends, and next week's, prime sugaring temps, the trees kick it back into 1+ gpt days. Still have syrup that needs to be made.

Sugar's at 1.3% on yesterday's load. Boiled for an hour and shut her down. Bottled about 27 gallons from the last two boils. First batch of Very Dark is on the shelf. Syrup flavor still good, so trees haven't budded.

Had almost two catastrophic events yesterday. Syrup pan float stuck on the first draw...no idea why. Flue pan float stuck mid--boil...no idea why. Fortunately, Lisa caught it when I went outside to put the RO on a wash cycle. Last week, I ordered a low level alarm for the flue pan and it'll be in tomorrow. $300 is cheap insurance for a replacement flue pan.

Unsure on how I'm going cover sap for Maple Weekend. I need like 1000 gal to run the RO/Evap all day. To do that, I'll need to hold today/Thursday's run (or lack thereof) and boil that Saturday. And take Friday and Saturday's run and boil that Sunday. Not a big fan of holding late season sap that long. If I boil tomorrow night, that'll leave me with more Very Dark to put on the shelves for Maple Weekend, and Friday's run should net me the 300 gal I need to run just evap. all day and Saturday's run to boil on Sunday.