lumber yard. that makes this a totally free sugar shack. and it is still standing and serving us well.
this year we are boiling maple sap into syrup pretty heavily since i tapped the trees a few weeks ago. for a good maple sap flow you need nights below freezing and days above freezing. if one of those two conditions are not met in a given day then there is no sap flow on that day. the sun shining helps a lot to increase the sap flow as well.
since we tapped a few weeks ago we have had a few pretty good days and some not so good. most days were 