Finall Back At It In The Sugar Bush

Well It's been near two weeks since things have warmed up enough for sap to run. A good thing I guess, as both my uncle and myself have had to spend time in the hospital during the period. He with a form of gout that caused his left arm to swell up and they had to lance it from the middle of his fore finger to close to his elbo. Me , I had another stroke 3rd. I got the doctors baffeled a bit because after all the tests they did, my body is in great shape as far as my heart, veins etc.are conserned. I went to another hospital this time to perhaps get a different opinion. This one is a teaching hospital, that I have shyed away from in earlier years when I was working, because a minor infection turned into a major allday event, because every inturn had to diagnose the problem. My regular GP from the other hospital insisted that my BP was too high. The docs. at this hospital agreed with me that some people function better at higher BPs. So I'm still on asprin and a much reduced regiment of BP meds, went from 6 meds to two meds per day. We will se what happens.
Any way we were back in the sugarbush today. We had to empty the half full buckets, mostly ice. The sap we collected was testing 4.5% sugar, since the water had frozen and we dumped it, but I think the syrup may be dark since it has set in the buckets for many days at about plus/minus 32F temp.
Loren, the Acg.

Loren , always go with someone to do anything ,, dont go solo on any project ,.. you mean more to the yt forum family than you can imagine ,,Please KNOW YOU ARE LOVED BY FOLX YOU HAVE NEVER MET , and we are concerned for you .. ever thought about MAYO Clinic ? .. Most Important ,, We Are Glad to hear You Are out and About.and runnin maple sugar. i for one ,certainly admire your family and its legacy ,,May God Bless you All And SafeGuard EVERYONES Health there

Loren,

I hope the medication changes work for you and that you do not have any further health problems.

I always enjoy your postings and photos. Take care.

Sorry to hear about your health troubles. I started the fire in the evaporator this morning, first time in 2 weeks for me too.
Zach

sorry to hear of your health problems,hope they have it on track now,keep us posted.

Your pics are great. I really hope you can get on top of your health problems.

Case guy---I won't say a word!

Post below is right. Don't go solo if you can possibly avoid it.

Hope you get your health issues straightened out.

Welcome back Loren, and take it easy,! We like your pics and help on this site, Lol. Best of luck with your health. J

Hope all is well with your health.

Sap here has been running pretty good. I have 52 taps and been getting 60-70 gallons a day for about the last week. I can"t keep up boiling with that much. I have made a lot more syrup that I imagined I could have when I stared this adventure. Weather looks like it will end the sap run this weekend. The snow from sunday has been making it hard to get around in the woods. Most of my taps are on a hillside with no access to the bottom with the tractor.

Learning hospitals aernt always bad . Ohio State and Duke are some of the best hospitals .

Loren, please do as J hikemper says, always have someone with you when going way 'off somewhere'.
We would really miss you and all your info. that you post here.
Had an uncle with the same health as you , he followed Dr s orders , lived to be 100. clint