Played hooky and got all my taps in today. Many of the taps were already dripping. My one gusher of a tree was, of course, gushing. Everything in tapping went fine this year except... found my stovepipe had fallen off the back of the sugar shack. Thought it had just gotten blown off in a storm, but when I went to seat it back on, found it was actually all rotted out. Didn't have more stovepipe on hand (or the time to get it and install it). Have a bunch of other small things I didn't get to that I need to deal with too. So I guess I'll have a very long day for my first boil this weekend.

Anyway, excited to have finally pulled the trigger!

GO