April 6 (Thursday) Bill, Jimmy, Pat, Bob, and Curtis were all here by 8:30 AM so we headed out.  There was enough sap in the pails to collect but it is frozen almost solid.  No hope of getting it out of the pails.  The only good news was that the trails were frozen and easy […]

April 18 (Sunday) Final thoughts.  We had a very short three week season that came to an abrupt end before the trees started budding out.  In past years the spring peepers and budding trees always signaled the end.  Go figure!  Every season has its differences and we always learn something new.  We ended up with […]

June 6, Saturday Clean up is finally done!  We washed the pails today, the latest we have ever done this task.  We kept waiting for the weather to warm up but it just isn’t happening.  Oh, well.  At least it is done. Some final thoughts on the season.  Sadly, the theme for the 2020 season […]

May 2, Wednesday We took down the pails last Friday as planned and I cleaned the evaporator on Monday.  I put the cleaner in the evaporator on Friday and let it sit for a couple of days.  I will definitely do that again.  The clean up was much easier.  That is the dirtiest job of all […]

April 6, Monday I cleaned the evaporator this morning (pan cleaner, pressure washer and a lot of elbow grease) so the dirtiest job is out of the way.  Linda had planned to pick up pails today, but we had almost 6″ of snow overnight.  We’ll wait for better weather to do that.  Now the wait […]