{"id":301,"date":"2012-03-14T00:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:44:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:44:34","slug":"all-signs-point-to-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"All Signs Point to the End of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started the day with a water run with the tractor at 8:30 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 Needed water to wash our pans before cooking for the day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was 21 \u00bd\u201d in the small tank when we started, about 175 gallons.\u00a0 Pushed hard boiling all day and by 6:00 PM it was empty.\u00a0 Back in the house by 7:00 PM which is the earliest for the past six days.\u00a0 Its been a busy few days cooking through these runs.\u00a0\u00a0 We still have to bottle.\u00a0 We have two and a half milk can full of syrup.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The overnight it was down to the low 40s.\u00a0 Up to low 60s today.\u00a0\u00a0 Not the type of weather we need.\u00a0 All signs point to the end of the season.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Less sweet sap.\u00a0\u00a0 Darker syrup.\u00a0 No freezing nights.\u00a0\u00a0 We have not seen any buds on the trees yet but with the warm weather that can not be far behind.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago today March 13 we made our first syrup.\u00a0\u00a0 This year we are looking at the end of the season already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started the day with a water run with the tractor at 8:30 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 Needed water to wash our pans before cooking for the day.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was 21 \u00bd\u201d in the small tank when we started, about 175 gallons.\u00a0 Pushed hard boiling all day and by 6:00 PM it was empty.\u00a0 Back in the house by [&hellip;]<\/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-301","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\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}