She did indeed, Al. We tapped in with 55 maples and 10 black walnuts, and collected 35 gallons maple sap and 6 gallons walnut sap this morning. Not a big run by any means, but just right to test out the changes we made over the summer. It was nice smelling the sap cooking and listening to the boil.
My wife along with our oldest, tapping in.
Gage, dumping sap from a bucket into the collection tank.
Offloading sap from the collection tank into the storage tanks inside the building.
Our boys, filling the tanks. So much nicer than carrying 5 gallon buckets.
Steam rising up into our new cupola. No more rain in the sugar house.
