Good morning,
     Sap has been slow here. We have only picked up Twice so far, maybe 375 gallons total.  We now have 213 taps set out and may put more out as what we have seem to have dried up. A few of the really good trees that had stopped running I drilled new holes in but it didn't make much difference. We picked up about 230 of ther 375 last night so will boil today.  The temp.s reached the mid 50's yesterday so dont want to hang on to it one minute longer than we have to. I have not checked the sugar content of what we have gathered  and have never bothered to.... one more overpriced gadget. Last year we were selling syrup at $15/quart or $50/gallon and will probably stick with that price.  We only put up quarts. I find that it is easier, rather than messing with so many different sizes, although we used to put up a mess of different sizes and glass too. I still put up the glass maple leaves.... they look so pretty when the sunlight hits them.
   It sounds like you are doing well with the sugaring and may have quite a bit more to come. I can only hope ours is the same but I am afraid I am not too optimistic.   I have tried sending you pictures of our sugarhouse and some of the setup but this site is odd. It tells me the pictures are too big and that your private mail box is too full here.... mine too. my home E-mail is: 
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:maarrestad@snet.net">maarrestad@snet.net</a><!-- e -->    so if you write to me there I would have your e-mail also and would be able to send pictures.  We are too far out so cannot get DSL so what we have isn't much better than dial-up so I cannot send too many pictures at once. I guess I am used to it tho'.
  Good to hear the update from you and good sugaring!
all for now,
       Cal