{"id":2326,"date":"2026-03-22T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:47:48","slug":"changed-todays-work-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=2326","title":{"rendered":"Changed Today\u2019s Work Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Into the woods by 5:15 AM to cook. Planned to spend the day cooking. Checked the weather forecast. Tonight the temperature drops to the low-20s. Sap ran yesterday as the second part of the big run from Friday. It\u2019s typical big runs occur over two days. With the low temperatures the sap would turn to ice in the buckets. Better to collect while it\u2019s liquid. Larger quantities take longer to freeze. Smaller 10-12 quart pails readily freeze. Cooked until Noon, then collected 285 gallons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have approximately 550 gallons sap in storage tanks. Expecting it will take three days to cook. Three long days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day cooking.<br>7:00 AM 21 1\/2\u201d<br>8:00 AM 21\u201d<br>9:00 AM 20\u201d<br>9:10 AM batch<br>10:00 AM 18\u201d<br>11:00 AM 16 \u00bd\u201d<br>12:00 PM 14 3\/4\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the farmhouse by 2:30 PM. Knocked off early to rest. Yesterday\u2019s 16 \u00bc hours was challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 5:15 AM to cook. Planned to spend the day cooking. Checked the weather forecast. Tonight the temperature drops to the low-20s. Sap ran yesterday as the second part of the big run from Friday. It\u2019s typical big runs occur over two days. With the low temperatures the sap would turn to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-season-109"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","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=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}