Where was the newspaper article when I could use the free publicity? Not that I don't this year but it would have been great when we had a maple weekend. The reporter was telling me that Bruce Bascom had told her that the Canadian reserves are getting low. He said that because of Covid a lot of smaller Canadian producers had gone out of business and that they are expecting the reserves to be depleted more because of it. Bulk prices are up slightly! There were a lot of smaller operations in Quebec that also had pancake houses to support their incomes. The Covid shut down helped put them out of business. That was why the reporter wanted to know if my shutting down was due to Covid.

It's been cold and windy here with the daytime highs in the mid 30's. I wasn't expecting much for sap flows but it ran surprisingly well. I got 300 gallons Saturday which was the cloudier but warmer day of the 2 and 350 yesterday when the sun was shining all day and evening with stronger winds than the day before. I went down to check my tank at 6PM and to my delight there was 350 gallons of sap in the tank and the sap was still coming in as good as was earlier in the afternoon. I was planning to turn off the vacuum when I went back to the sugar house but left it on. The temp at the sugar house was 27*! It's always colder in the woods and to my surprise the coldest section of my woods was running the best.