Busy,Busy,Busy

Maple syrup season has finally gotten to our neck of the woods. It is later than it has been for quite a few years but it is shaping up to be a good year for production if the weather continues the way it has been. Of course, weather it the determining factor in sap production, it needs to be warm during the day and freeze at night for the sap to run. We have had those conditions here and the trees are giving us a nice run. Yesterday the average per tap run was a little over a quart of sap per tap. With almost 300 taps in that meant about 80 gallons of sap which should give us over two gallons of syrup once it is cooked down. My biggest challenge now will be cutting fire wood for the cooker fast enough to keep that sap boiling. We still have over two feet of snow in the woods in many places so working in that wet snow makes slow going.
Our other project is getting the green house set up and this years seeds started. I'll need about twenty flats again this year. The weather is not good for this project since those freezing nights mean I need to heat the green house. Guess I'd better get back to work, I need more fire wood!