A late start to the day.\u00a0 Into the woods by 10:00 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 Today we were going to take down the taps.\u00a0\u00a0 There is always a hesitation to get started with that task.\u00a0 Removing the taps really does bring an end to the season.\u00a0\u00a0 Its a sad task to get started.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
By 11:00 AM we started.\u00a0 Usually we dump to the ground any remaining sap in the buckets.\u00a0 There is not much and what is there is quite bad.\u00a0 But today things were different.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was cold again last night: down to 25.\u00a0\u00a0 Quite a few buckets had a quart or more of sap.\u00a0 And good quality sap.\u00a0 We started dumping but changed our mind.\u00a0 Went back to get a milk can and collecting pail.\u00a0 We emptied the bucket first, then pulled the tap.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By the end of the day we had about 80 gallons of sap.\u00a0\u00a0 We emptied into the evaporator as the day progressed so we got it boiled down right away.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
All the taps are off now.\u00a0 Tomorrow or the next day we will collect the pails from the woods.\u00a0 We have to boil down and finish the sap remaining in the evaporator so we don’t know final numbers yet.\u00a0\u00a0 Clean up\u00a0 remains too.\u00a0\u00a0 But we certainly did try to get every last drop of sap for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A late start to the day.\u00a0 Into the woods by 10:00 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 Today we were going to take down the taps.\u00a0\u00a0 There is always a hesitation to get started with that task.\u00a0 Removing the taps really does bring an end to the season.\u00a0\u00a0 Its a sad task to get started.\u00a0 By 11:00 AM we started.\u00a0 […]<\/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-222","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\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}