Chatter has been minimal from our beautiful driftless region of SW Wisconsin so a new thread is in order. I'm curious if you've been able to hold off with tapping or on the other hand tapped early and are now calling it quits for the season after the warm spell. I was tempted to tap before the warm up but knew that sap would have spoiled in the buckets between my weekend forays to our land. So, in the mean time, I'm on this site and 3 different weather sites about 3 times a day! Trying hard to spend more money but ultimately am pretty content with my simple operation (cinder block and single flat pan) and keeping it to scale. Last year I produced about 4 gallons. Do hope for at least 5 gallons this year. I'm planning to tap my usual 20-25 trees this Sunday as temps look promising most of next week. Love this version of March Madness!!