I was really worried about my smokestack yesterday. It's 17" square and probably 35' above the roof and the 50mph winds put a pretty good warp and lean in it! Luckily it was still standing when we left the camp at 10:30 last night.

We got the hard day out of the way yesterday. We managed to figure out a lot of the things that Dad used to look after himself. The RO got washed up and membrane installed. I ran a couple hundred gallons of sap through it to get the storage solution flushed out and then started concentrating. We ran 3000 gallons of sap through it to concentrate to 8%. We flooded the pans, lit the fire and were off to the races. It took 4 hours to get our first runoff and by the end we had 43 gallons of very good light syrup - almost extra light. Mom made some beautiful sugar with it. Hopefully the weekend is a good one. Our first boil was 17 days earlier than last year!