The winter that won't quit!

[West Sumner Sugar]

I agree...40 inches of snow in the past 7 days...with talk of another one coming! We were so close to spring, sap gathering was easy, beautiful sunny days. Now its looking cold and snowy for the next week.

[BRL]

Yup crazy weather for sure! Plus side we have snow to keep our storage tanks cool when the sap does run! My youngest has 2 baseball games scheduled 3/31, not seeing that happening!

[West Sumner Sugar]

Looks like a big extended freeze coming this weekend into next week. Could be yet another season reset.

[BreezyHill]

The cold here in our part of New Mont will reset the trees. Snow varies a lot in every direction from 6' to 12". We are frost hard again but only have 12-18" of snow. The snow will make the season longer and supply the trees with needed water.
Ground is powdery 2' down saws the cable burial crew in the area for the new spectrum cable in the area.

Old fashioned winter like when I was a kid!

Funny how any big storm like we had in the 60's thru the 80's is now "THE STORM OF THE CENTURY" . funny HOW I'm only 52 and I have now lived thru 20 100 year storms in the last 5-7 years.

[blissville maples]

The cold here in our part of New Mont will reset the trees. Snow varies a lot in every direction from 6' to 12". We are frost hard again but only have 12-18" of snow. The snow will make the season longer and supply the trees with needed water.
Ground is powdery 2' down saws the cable burial crew in the area for the new spectrum cable in the area.

Old fashioned winter like when I was a kid!

Funny how any big storm like we had in the 60's thru the 80's is now "THE STORM OF THE CENTURY" . funny HOW I'm only 52 and I have now lived thru 20 100 year storms in the last 5-7 years.

Yea right, anything to hype people up..... everyone is used to that easy button these days that 10 degrees and a foot of snow is a reason to go dormant and whine about how hard it is to deal with. Of course they(the gov't) are always looking to encourage the next wave of super shopping so to spike some revenue to support all their laundering and liberal politics.

[Road's End]

I'm looking forward to hooking up at least a couple more lines tomorrow, looks like a warm up is coming mid-week. Just have to break trail all over again...not looking forward to that part.

[penfrydd]

Yesterday was the first time I boiled in 2 1/2 weeks. I had about 150 gallons of sap from the last run in plastic drums: frozen solid. At least the sap was well preserved. Finally thawing out and sap is running again, but is I look at the tops of my trees, I can detect the slightest blush of color, so I think I've only got a few more days of good sap.

All-in-all it was a better season than I expected.