All this cold weather has got me thinking about the upcoming sugarin' season, so I thought I'd get a thread started for 2017. One thing's for sure, the weather is more promising this winter than it was last.

I lost one of my biggest sugar maple trees this summer. About 2 1/2 feet in diameter, maybe 130 ft tall, and it just fell over. Bummer. So that put me down a couple taps...I found a couple more sugar maples to tap in its place, but I doubt they'll get close to equaling the sap it provided.