Day 31: 4/5/08 The Longest Day

Boiled today. 15 1/2 gallons of sap into 1 3/4 quarts. That's a pretty good ratio. It was a long day - 14 hours total. I modified the boiling setup a little to try to capture all of the heat. Sheet metal on the right side stopped most of the heat from escaping, as did the bricks. I need a new plan for next year. This way is too slow. If I had more sap, I would have been boiling endlessly.

This might have been the last day. We'll see. It did get down to 29 degrees last night. That doesn't mean all the trees were that cold, though.