more releaser woes... the float rod keeps hanging up... I don;t know. I have a big leak somewhere I need to find only at 22" but sucking some serious air. and releaser backed up twice yesterday. I have had this for 4 years and except for the bottom seal broke after the first year it has been extremely reliable. missed out on most of yesterday's sap since I didn;t want to risk things backing up etc etc etc. gotta find the leak first. It was coming in pretty good until the clouds showed up then it slowed right down. It ran perfectly all friday night and had 450 gallons total by morning which I RO. while I was taking apart the releaser again then to my son's bball games. got home about 8:30 and started the evap at 9:00. filtering going much easier now. still not perfect but much better. lots of niter but filtering out the syrup pan at the end of boil each time has helped with charging the filter before the heavier stuff comes through.

they only had 6 players and the first team was Weare they won 55 to 26, My son scored 20 points and had more than 1/2 of the rebounds. then they played Goffstown and they had a 6th grader that I think was 6'1" but which my son and the other tall player on the team were able to stuff him a few times but the he was just good and had easily 8 to 9 inches on them both they lost 60 to 33. but my son made 3 - 3 pointers but couldn't make a lay up in the second game to save his life. but hit every one in the first game... I have to give them credit for keeping it that close. they were big and pretty good and very physical and were fouling the heck out of our boys and only called for 1/2 of the fouls. but without that 6'1" kid he made about 40 of their their points. on the last play of the game the other 6th grader on our team landed bad on his foot and broke a bone and a bad sprain just on a 1/2 court buzzer beater shot. wasn't pretty. So on to to the looser bracket with 5 kids 1-6th grader 3-5th graders and 1-4th grader. anyway enough about baskeball it was just fun to watch.