{"id":174,"date":"2009-04-02T02:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2009-04-02T02:28:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T02:28:24","slug":"winding-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Winding Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started taking off buckets and pulling spouts today.\u00a0 Most are off already.\u00a0 We take the buckets off, empty them and turn upside down to dry for a day before picking them up the next day.\u00a0 Its bitter sweet to take down the buckets as it really means the end of the season.\u00a0 No buckets and spouts, no sap.\u00a0 There may even be a run again over the weekend as freezing nights return.\u00a0 But have to move on to other things.\u00a0 And this has been a good season.\u00a0 We bottled 23 quarts today again.\u00a0 We now have 275 quarts total and should end up with 71 or more gallons. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We got a late start boiling today as we had to clean our syrup pan on the evaporator.\u00a0 When the niter (sugar sand) builds up on the bottom of the pan it does not heat properly.\u00a0 It takes about 2 hours to break down and clean, which seems like wasted time.\u00a0 Except that without cleaning you putz around so long trying to get a good boil that this is faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started taking off buckets and pulling spouts today.\u00a0 Most are off already.\u00a0 We take the buckets off, empty them and turn upside down to dry for a day before picking them up the next day.\u00a0 Its bitter sweet to take down the buckets as it really means the end of the season.\u00a0 No buckets and [&hellip;]<\/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-174","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\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}