43 Hours Is a Long Time to Stay Awake

So we boiled all night Friday, all day Saturday and fed the fire until about 9:15, then we were down t0 about 50 gallons of sap so we started letting it cool off.

Sometime during the night - or morning, depending on how you look at it, I guess - we had nothing better to do so we added a buzzer activated by the automatic drawoff. If we fell asleep or were outside we would know the syrup was ready and to check the valve. When Michael first plugged it in it was set for around 100 dB...WAY too loud. We cranked it down far enough that it was not too annoying and put it on a timer so it only goes off for about one second.

We lost track of how many gallons of syrup we got, we'll have to figure it out later. All we know is we're about out of quart jugs, and if the weather cooperates later in the week we may need more.

I left around 9:30 PM, Michael and Bob stayed out until about 11, by then everything was pretty much cooled off.

As usual, we'll have to see what the weather does and find out later this week if we can make any more.