Also, this year, I'm downsizing a little bit. Last year was overwhelming. I was swimming in sap, and very stressed by having insufficient firewood. I know having too much sap is not a bad problem to have, but not if you have only around 1/3 of the firewood you need! I wound up pulling taps about a week before I should have, though most trees were still producing.

In addition to downsizing the number of taps, I have a lot of firewood stacked up. I hope it's at least a season and a half. I hope to increase that to keep a full extra year's worth of firewood on hand so I'll be able to handle it next time I have a monster season like last year.

Gabe O