Sunday, March 22, 2009

Friday and Saturday we didn't have any action in the sugarhouse. It froze at night, but didn't warm up enough during the day to start the sap flowing.

Yesterday afternoon around 4 p.m. the sap started to run slowly and ran all night. Harvey has 1 tank full of sap. Harvey is starting the RO and it takes about 3 hours for him to get enough concentrate before he can begin to boil. He will probably start to boil after lunch today.

It is snowing here this morning and we really needed a storm for the trees.

Our sugar content of the sap was 2.75% yesterday, which is high for us. We are usually 2%. Some sugarmakers are only getting 1.5%. 

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