It was cold over night: down to 13.\u00a0 It froze so hard we could walk on top of the snow this morning.\u00a0 When it warms you sink in.\u00a0 There is still a lot of snow in the woods.\u00a0 We just got the trail around the building open today for the tractor.\u00a0 There is still one loop on the collecting trail that is not open.\u00a0 We have to unhook the wagon and collecting tank from the tractor to manually turn it around so we can drive out forward.<\/p>\n
It was sunny all day and warmed to the upper 30s.\u00a0 The sap dripped.\u00a0 We will collect tomorrow.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
We got all the remaining taps out this morning.\u00a0 We are now at 400.\u00a0 The tractor problems set up back.\u00a0 The original plan was to have all the taps out by March 4th.\u00a0 Oops.<\/p>\n
This afternoon we worked on opening the tractor trail around the building.\u00a0 There are two feet of snow in places yet.\u00a0 Had to use the tractor bucket to dig it out.\u00a0 Its quite a workout wrestling with the steering wheel with a bucket full of snow and snow under the wheels. \u00a0<\/p>\n
About 3:45 PM the Pastor from church came to give a blessing of the maples.\u00a0 Maple syrup is the first crop of the year.\u00a0\u00a0 Its proper that we acknowledge and give thanks to our Maker for the crop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was cold over night: down to 13.\u00a0 It froze so hard we could walk on top of the snow this morning.\u00a0 When it warms you sink in.\u00a0 There is still a lot of snow in the woods.\u00a0 We just got the trail around the building open today for the tractor.\u00a0 There is still one […]<\/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-246","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\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}