{"id":2116,"date":"2025-03-20T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:43:59","slug":"syrup-on-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"Syrup On The Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every season there\u2019s an incident where a valve that should be closed is left open or a valve that should be open is left closed causing sap or syrup to flow where it\u2019s not expected. While bottling this morning, we left a fill valve on the new bottler open causing about 2 gallons to spill onto the floor. We leave the valves open after washing the bottler but forgot to check them before adding syrup. We stepped away after adding a pail of syrup so didn\u2019t notice the spill until most of the syrup was on the floor. The floor was both sticky and slippery until we washed it down with water.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"453\" src=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Syrup_on_the_floor.jpg\" alt=\"Syrup of the floor\" class=\"wp-image-2115\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Syrup_on_the_floor.jpg 400w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Syrup_on_the_floor-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Syrup of the floor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Into the woods by 6:00 AM to bottle. Bottled two milk cans. We have a little room for more syrup, but still have four milk cans of syrup to bottle. Bottled 11 \u00bd gallons plus 2 gallons for the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a storm last night into this morning. Started as rain by 4:00 PM yesterday. Changed to snow by 7:00 PM yesterday. About 4\u201d of snow but the strong wind made for quite the storm. It cleared by 11:00 AM but was still blowing at 6:00 AM when we went into the woods. The sun came out and temperature mid-30s. Today is the first day of Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" src=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/First_day_of_Spring_2025.jpg\" alt=\"First day of Spring 2025\" class=\"wp-image-2114\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/First_day_of_Spring_2025.jpg 400w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/First_day_of_Spring_2025-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">First day of Spring 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Back to the farmhouse by 2:15 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every season there\u2019s an incident where a valve that should be closed is left open or a valve that should be open is left closed causing sap or syrup to flow where it\u2019s not expected. While bottling this morning, we left a fill valve on the new bottler open causing about 2 gallons to spill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-season-108"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","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=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}