{"id":239,"date":"2011-03-08T19:09:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T19:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2020-02-10T20:29:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:29:25","slug":"sap-before-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Sap Before the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the kind of day you think of when you think of maple syrup season: sunny, 38-39 degrees, no wind.&nbsp; Just a nice day in the woods.&nbsp; Its hard to understand that a snow storm is coming.&nbsp; After teasing us for almost a week the weather forecasters have decided we will get 4\u201d-6\u201d or 5\u201d-7\u201d.&nbsp; The rain will stay to the south of us.&nbsp; Now we&#8217;ll see what really happens tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>We tapped 75 more before lunch.&nbsp; That makes 300 taps out now.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We miss the H tractor.&nbsp; We are happy to have the Massey as a loaner: we would not have been able to&nbsp; do anything today without it.&nbsp; But it struggles in the snow and pulling the collecting tank.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t have as much clearance.&nbsp; The wheels are smaller so it doesn&#8217;t pull as well.&nbsp; Chains would help, but this tractor seems much more suited for good surfaces.&nbsp;&nbsp; Its not the best for the snow and mud of syrup season.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that a storm was coming for Wednesday we planned to collect today.&nbsp; Dug out our wagon which we need for the collecting tank.&nbsp;&nbsp; Prepared the collecting tank and storage tanks.&nbsp; Set out about 3:00 PM to collect.&nbsp; Picked up 100 gallons.&nbsp; Not a lot but get it while its there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the kind of day you think of when you think of maple syrup season: sunny, 38-39 degrees, no wind.&nbsp; Just a nice day in the woods.&nbsp; Its hard to understand that a snow storm is coming.&nbsp; After teasing us for almost a week the weather forecasters have decided we will get 4\u201d-6\u201d or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-season-94"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}