{"id":216,"date":"2010-03-25T02:23:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-03-25T02:23:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:23:39","slug":"tanks-empty-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Tanks Empty Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was warm again.\u00a0 Up to 53.\u00a0\u00a0 It did just freeze last night, about 30.\u00a0\u00a0 The spouts were wet but not dripping much.\u00a0\u00a0 It needs to be a little colder.\u00a0\u00a0 A cold front is forecast to move in overnight which will drop the temperatures again.\u00a0 We are hoping to get one or two more collections for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day boiling down the sap from yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 Into the woods by 7:30 AM.\u00a0 Cleaned out the front syrup pan before stating the evaporator.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It takes about an hour to do that, but makes the day boiling much easier.\u00a0 Took a batch off the evaporator about 11:30 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 That got added to the batch from yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 About 4:00 PM we started bottling.\u00a0\u00a0 Bottled 19 quarts and 1 pint.\u00a0 Stayed in the woods\u00a0 boiling then until the storage tanks were empty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Took another batch off the evaporator about 7:00 PM.\u00a0 That batch just went into the milk can for finishing and bottling later.\u00a0\u00a0 By 8:00 PM the tanks were empty and by 8:20 PM we were back in the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was warm again.\u00a0 Up to 53.\u00a0\u00a0 It did just freeze last night, about 30.\u00a0\u00a0 The spouts were wet but not dripping much.\u00a0\u00a0 It needs to be a little colder.\u00a0\u00a0 A cold front is forecast to move in overnight which will drop the temperatures again.\u00a0 We are hoping to get one or two more collections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-season-93"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}