{"id":243,"date":"2011-03-12T00:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T00:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2011-03-12T00:33:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T00:33:19","slug":"waiting-for-the-bucket-ice-to-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the Bucket Ice to Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was sunny and warmed to about 42 this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 It started out cold, down to 18 overnight.\u00a0 That made ice of the sap in all the buckets.\u00a0\u00a0 We planned to collect, but we had to wait for the ice to melt.\u00a0 By 10:30 AM the sun&#8217;s magic was starting to melt the ice in the buckets.\u00a0 But it seemed slow.\u00a0 We were not sure it would melt enough to collect.\u00a0\u00a0 By 12:30 PM there was still a lot of ice.\u00a0 We called help and planned to start collecting at 2:30 PM.\u00a0 And by 2:30 PM most of the ice had melted.\u00a0\u00a0 Waiting to collect was the right move.\u00a0\u00a0 We picked up 300 gallons.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We did not start the evaporator.\u00a0 We will boil tomorrow. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We did get the pipes from the storage tanks to the evaporator connected.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And tapped 12 more close to the syrup building.<\/p>\n<p>We did not get the H back today.\u00a0 We continue to miss it.\u00a0 We were not able to fill the collecting tank because the Massey could not pull it through the snow.\u00a0 We emptied at 140 gallons and again at 160 gallons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was sunny and warmed to about 42 this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 It started out cold, down to 18 overnight.\u00a0 That made ice of the sap in all the buckets.\u00a0\u00a0 We planned to collect, but we had to wait for the ice to melt.\u00a0 By 10:30 AM the sun&#8217;s magic was starting to melt the ice in [&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-243","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\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}