{"id":242,"date":"2011-03-10T23:50:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T23:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2011-03-10T23:50:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T23:50:40","slug":"155-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"1:55 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day started cloudy and cold.\u00a0 It was cold working in and around the syrup building.\u00a0 By 2:00 PM it changed quickly with the sun arriving, wind stopping and getting up to upper 30s; a very nice afternoon.\u00a0 Tomorrow is forecast to be sunny and up to 40 or so; another nice day.\u00a0 We plan on collecting.\u00a0 There should be several quarts in the buckets as the sap did run this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Setup the evaporator today.\u00a0 Our goal was to get the 100 gallons of sap out of the collecting tank as its forecast to drop to 18 tonight.\u00a0 We did not want ice in the collecting tank.\u00a0 We did not use the storage tanks but rather pumped directly from the collecting tank into the evaporator.\u00a0 About 1:15 PM we were ready to start the evaporator.\u00a0 And by 1:55 PM we had our first boil.\u00a0\u00a0 And then we get that wonderful aroma of maple rising from the evaporator.\u00a0 We boiled until about 4:45 PM.\u00a0 Emptied the 100 gallons of sap from the collecting tank into the evaporator.<\/p>\n<p>We may get the H tractor back tomorrow.\u00a0 That would be very helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day started cloudy and cold.\u00a0 It was cold working in and around the syrup building.\u00a0 By 2:00 PM it changed quickly with the sun arriving, wind stopping and getting up to upper 30s; a very nice afternoon.\u00a0 Tomorrow is forecast to be sunny and up to 40 or so; another nice day.\u00a0 We plan [&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-242","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\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}