Ready For 2022?

[John-NJ]

Spring peepers heard last night and this morning!!

Temp is forecast to be 75 today, cold front coming through later, but doesn't look like much freezing weather in the next week. Processing 155 gallons this am, which may be the last but we'll see.

If it is the end, I cant really complain - should come out of it with 28+ gallons of syrup, more than double my previous seasons high

[dcast99]

The frost is just coming out of the ground up here making everything a sloppy mess. Have about 550 gal to take care of today. Not worried about the peepers yet. Most years we get a warm spell then it turns back to sap weather. Let's hope it does.

[dcast99]

Made 9.5 gal of nice amber syrup today. Total for the year is only 25.5 gal. Hope to get to at least last year's total of 60 gal. Have to look around fog pint jugs to put it in. Our local supplier is out and can't get anymore.

[John-NJ]

I got 95 gallons of sap from yesterday, but now the calendar looks bad for the next week plus.

Did my last boil for the year - finished up with about 28 gallons of sap per tap, and what will be a total of almost 30 gallons of syrup. Really spectacular year for me, and now I need to spend the next few days washing everything and putting together the to-do list for next year.

Best to all

John

[dcast99]

We did our last real boil on the 17th with 660gal of sap. Did the evap cleanup boil on the 20th. We made a total of 58 gal of syrup for the year. Had one of my runs (90 taps) setup for vacuum but with the way the season and my time went I didn't get to run it much.