Fun highlight of today was going to see our roommate Elliott Oil serum where he works… Just a quarter-mile down the road. He worked side-by-side with our neighbor Mike to tap over 7000 trees. They have a brand new high-tech reverse osmosis set up. It is really amazing to see

here’s the sap as it comes in from the trees

Hear her the powerful vacuum pumps that pull the sap through the lines

I sat comes in looking light green crystal

The low side of the RO system… Is it deionized water and it looks like blue crystal

Here’s Eliot with his very valuable take so far…

Here are the concentrate tanks… Just sitting right above the boiler

Here’s looking down into the boiling pan

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Checking the specific gravity of the syrup that’s pouring out

Super fun to watch Elliot and the teamwork. So cool this is happening just behind our house.

We got the girls out for a few hikes today. Just see in the last of the snow

A hot bath and several technical papers await… Got to go now.

Nite all, nite Sam

-me