Mostly sunny and up to 47 or so.\u00a0 Sap dripped a little.\u00a0 We are planning to collect either Friday or Saturday before the storms.\u00a0 The forecast is still for snow on Saturday late afternoon.\u00a0 Maybe 3-5 inches but it will depend on the track of the storm moving in from the plains states.\u00a0 Around Denver, CO they are getting 18 inches and blizzard conditions. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Came across old maple syrup production records from 1946-1972.\u00a0\u00a0 The paper is old and getting brittle.\u00a0 The writing is fading.\u00a0 Transcribing the records to preserve them or they will be lost to the ages.\u00a0\u00a0 Looking at the records shows that the season has pretty much shifted to start a month earlier.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even into the 60s the maple syrup season was the end of March and mostly through April.\u00a0 Now the season starts and ends pretty much in March.\u00a0\u00a0 And the production numbers seem suspect.\u00a0 In the late 60s 100 buckets would be put out and 35 gallons of syrup made.\u00a0 That seems way too high.\u00a0 100 buckets would make about 15 gallons.\u00a0\u00a0 But the records reflect what they did at the time.\u00a0\u00a0 The syrup was likely not made the proper density so they were able to stretch the amount made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mostly sunny and up to 47 or so.\u00a0 Sap dripped a little.\u00a0 We are planning to collect either Friday or Saturday before the storms.\u00a0 The forecast is still for snow on Saturday late afternoon.\u00a0 Maybe 3-5 inches but it will depend on the track of the storm moving in from the plains states.\u00a0 Around Denver, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-season-92"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}