We put two more spiles in. We got good trees too! The new jugs were pretty full. We collected 30 litres from all of the trees today.

Well, I have taken oodles of pictures, but haven't had the time to post any yet. We have our first batch ready to boil down to the finish and started our next batch. We decided that was better done tomorrow.

We did something else fun…the partially boiled down sap tasted so good! We took some more out and made some tea directly in the sap in some cups. REALLY nice! So we had…HOT maple vanilla rooibos tea. What a treat! I thought of you all too as I was sipping it oh so slowly!   I think that we will try to freeze some partially boiled down sap for this purpose later on. I hope it will keep in the freezer. All we would need to do then is heat it up to a boil and throw the tea bag in.

We sure do smell like wood smoke. It makes me want to go camping. One day we will have to cook supper out there too. Not tonight, though…it was snowing!  We'll see how the sap collection goes over the next couple of days. If the sap freezes in the jugs, it is okay, as long as the trees co-operate and stop dripping for a while!

That's my update!