{"id":250,"date":"2011-03-19T00:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2011-03-19T00:33:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T00:33:03","slug":"tanks-are-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Tanks Are Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was cloudy and in the 40s today.\u00a0 It did actually freeze last night.\u00a0 That was\u00a0 unexpected.\u00a0\u00a0 But the sap did not run.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not cold enough.\u00a0\u00a0 The next two days are 40s and 20s.\u00a0 Hopefully there will be sap.\u00a0 Monday is back to 50s, then the rest of the week 40s and 20s with snow possible Tuesday night. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day cooking sap.\u00a0 Into the woods by 8:30 AM.\u00a0 We took three batches from the evaporator.\u00a0 Tomorrow we will bottle.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A neighbor came who is also cooking syrup this year.\u00a0\u00a0 He was unable to keep up this week so he gave us about 60 gallons of sap.\u00a0 By 5:30 the tanks were empty.\u00a0 Back in the house by 6:00 PM which early this week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We have 1425 gallons of sap so far.\u00a0\u00a0 This should be about the mid-point of the season.\u00a0 1200-1600 more gallons of sap should come yet.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the day cooking went.<\/p>\n<p> 9:00\u00a0\u00a0 22\u201d<br \/>10:00\u00a0 21 1\/2\u201d<br \/>11:00\u00a0 18\u201d<br \/>12:00\u00a0 15 1\/2\u201d<br \/> 1:00\u00a0\u00a0 12 3\/4\u201d<br \/> 2:00\u00a0\u00a0 10 1\/4\u201d<br \/> 3:00\u00a0\u00a0 7\u201d<br \/> 4:00\u00a0\u00a0 4 1\/2\u201d<br \/> 5:00\u00a0\u00a0 2 1\/4\u201d<br \/> 5:30\u00a0\u00a0 empty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was cloudy and in the 40s today.\u00a0 It did actually freeze last night.\u00a0 That was\u00a0 unexpected.\u00a0\u00a0 But the sap did not run.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not cold enough.\u00a0\u00a0 The next two days are 40s and 20s.\u00a0 Hopefully there will be sap.\u00a0 Monday is back to 50s, then the rest of the week 40s and 20s [&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-250","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\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}