The beginning of boiling on Friday morning

March 30, 2013 - Saturday morning
33 degrees/calm/rain
Pentoga Road

It's mostly pictures this morning. After hauling sap all day yesterday and boiling, I was a bit tired last night and overslept this morning... by about two hours.



The sap ran well and it was almost sundown before I dumped my last five gallon bucket. Storage is becoming an issue. I thought I had a large tank purchased, but the seller has never called. If the sap ran all night, I'll have to drive into town and purchase another garbage can or two for storage.



The first gallon of syrup should be ready for filtering today. After that, it will set overnight for any remaining sentiment to fall to the bottom, then will be reheated and canned.

The pans are progressive with the third (the darkest) the "finishing" pan. Progression is from left to right: 1, 2, 4 and 3.

It's to rain all day today then we're to have almost a week of cold temperatures. That will give me a chance to catch up and refine and tweak the operation.

Today's the Milligan Family Easter dinner. If the sap didn't run during the night, I should be able to attend. If it did... well, all I can say is that a man's work is never done.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...

I discovered how to pop wheelies when starting too quickly with four five gallon buckets full of sap on the back.