Woke this morning to snow.\u00a0\u00a0 We got about 3\u201d overnight.\u00a0 That was unexpected.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything is snow covered and a nice white replaces the browns.\u00a0\u00a0 It was down to about 29 overnight and up to 34 during the day.\u00a0 Cloudy all day.<\/p>\n
Checked on the R\/O shipment.\u00a0 Its still in transit.\u00a0 It should arrive at the dealer on Monday and arrive here by Wednesday or Thursday.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
After lunch started cleaning up the syrup building.\u00a0 Swept the floor and cleaned the cobwebs.\u00a0 Assembled the burners on the finishing pan and bottling pan.\u00a0 We should have almost a full tank of propane gas left from last season.<\/p>\n
About 2:00 PM we checked some buckets.\u00a0 We were expecting some sap as the trees were running after we tapped.\u00a0 And ice since it was down to 15 the other night.\u00a0 What we found was quite a few full buckets from the first 200 taps we put out on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u00a0 So now we had to quickly prepare the collecting tank.\u00a0 It needed washing after sitting for a year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About 3:00 PM we went out collecting.\u00a0 By 5:30 PM we had 200 gallons.\u00a0 We covered about half the woods with the first taps from Tuesday and Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0 There is more sap in the 200 taps we put out yesterday but we don’t have any place to put it\u00a0 and it was getting dark.\u00a0 So that will stay in the buckets until Saturday or even Sunday if the ice does not melt.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Since the storage tanks are not setup the sap is staying in the collecting tank overnight.\u00a0 We tried to wrap in plastic to hold in some heat to keep it from freezing overnight.\u00a0 It has to get pretty cold to freeze 200 gallons.\u00a0 The forecast is for a low of 23.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we prepare the storage tanks and evaporator and start boiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Woke this morning to snow.\u00a0\u00a0 We got about 3\u201d overnight.\u00a0 That was unexpected.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything is snow covered and a nice white replaces the browns.\u00a0\u00a0 It was down to about 29 overnight and up to 34 during the day.\u00a0 Cloudy all day. Checked on the R\/O shipment.\u00a0 Its still in transit.\u00a0 It should arrive at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-season-95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}