Very cold overnight.\u00a0 Down to -3.\u00a0\u00a0 Sunny today but only reached about 32.\u00a0 Tomorrow and Wednesday warmer weather is forecast with highs maybe reaching 50.\u00a0\u00a0 Changing weather is normal in March, but these swings seem more extreme than normal.\u00a0 Everything is still snow covered and pretty.\u00a0 But with much warmer weather melting will commence and the brown mud will return.\u00a0\u00a0 Later in the week is settles down to 40s and 20s.\u00a0\u00a0 We are expecting sap.<\/p>\n
Into the wood around Noon to bottle.\u00a0 Ice in the evaporator.\u00a0\u00a0 The milk cans with water have ice.\u00a0\u00a0 Even the battery powered clock stopped for 7 \u00bd hours do to the cold.\u00a0 Got the syrup in the finishing pan and started the burner.\u00a0\u00a0 In the bottling kitchen the stove did not light.\u00a0 Must be ice somewhere in the lines.\u00a0 But the burners on the bottling pan worked so we could continue.\u00a0 Warmed water on the bottling pan.\u00a0\u00a0 We bottled 24 quarts and 1 pint.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
We have 19 \u00bd gallons total for season so far.\u00a0\u00a0 Our average is 60 gallons.\u00a0\u00a0 So we are about 1\/3 the way there.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are hoping to make more than 60 gallons, but our average over the years is 60 gallons which accounts for both the good seasons and the poor seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Very cold overnight.\u00a0 Down to -3.\u00a0\u00a0 Sunny today but only reached about 32.\u00a0 Tomorrow and Wednesday warmer weather is forecast with highs maybe reaching 50.\u00a0\u00a0 Changing weather is normal in March, but these swings seem more extreme than normal.\u00a0 Everything is still snow covered and pretty.\u00a0 But with much warmer weather melting will commence and […]<\/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-293","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\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}