23 this morning after a high of 41 yesterday. I don't think things that froze yesterday morning had a chance to thaw out much by yesterday afternoon so this has been a good long freeze. It would have been nice to have a couple of weeks ago, but it's what we have.

I have no idea how the trees will respond, but I know that my sugar maples have not budded yet. The red maples sure have....I was walking in my woods yesterday spotting maples that I had not seen before.

I have about 45 buckets hanging on trees around my church so they are all yard trees with big crowns. I checked after mass this morning and the ones I saw were running, so we'll see. The sap seemed clear and there was some ice in there from yesterday.

Dave