{"id":1671,"date":"2023-03-24T19:20:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2023-03-25T06:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T10:35:47","slug":"before-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Before the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>24 overnight. Sunny and 42 today. Trees dripped a little. We collected. Pickup the sap before the snow. Forecast is somewhere between 3\u201d and 10\u201d although 6\u201d seems most likely. It seems strange to think of a snow storm when we had such a nice day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the woods by 4:30 AM. Done by 10:15 AM. Did a pH wash cycle on the membrane where we add a cleaning agent to bring water in the wash tank to pH 10, slightly Alkaline (Base.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banner-pH-1024x324.png\" alt=\"pH Scale\" class=\"wp-image-1680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banner-pH-1024x324.png 1024w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banner-pH-300x95.png 300w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banner-pH-768x243.png 768w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banner-pH-900x285.png 900w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/banner-pH.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">pH Scale.  <br>Source https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/media\/images\/ph-scale-banner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The day cooking.<br>5:30 AM R\/O start<br>6:00 AM cooking with concentrate<br>6:55 AM batch<br>7:00 AM 0 PSI<br>7:40 AM R\/O done<br>8:00 AM 4.75\u201d concentrate<br>9:00 AM 2.5\u201d<br>9:15 AM start pH wash on R\/O<br>10:00 AM batch<br>10:15 AM done<br>3:30 PM  R\/O pH wash done<br>Back to the farmhouse by 10:30 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decided to collect. Pickup the sap before the snow. Got 150 gallons. We are now over 100% of a crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the farmhouse by 5:30 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 overnight. Sunny and 42 today. Trees dripped a little. We collected. Pickup the sap before the snow. Forecast is somewhere between 3\u201d and 10\u201d although 6\u201d seems most likely. It seems strange to think of a snow storm when we had such a nice day. Into the woods by 4:30 AM. Done by 10:15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-season-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}