{"id":308,"date":"2012-03-21T00:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2012-03-21T00:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:45:14","slug":"first-day-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And places in land away from Lake Michigan are reaching 80 degrees.\u00a0\u00a0 We had about 63.\u00a0 Its too warm.\u00a0\u00a0 We can not make assumptions about the future based on one year.\u00a0\u00a0 But if warm winters happen a few times a decade that could adversely effect maple syrup seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Into the woods by 9:00 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 Back to the house by 5:30 PM.\u00a0 Worked on cleaning the evaporator all day.\u00a0\u00a0 The small syrup pan is the cleanest its been in years.\u00a0 We took the time to get all the nitre off.\u00a0 There was a ring of nitre building up about 1 \u00bd\u201d up the pan.\u00a0\u00a0 It was at the level we boil sap in the pan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Its all off now.\u00a0\u00a0 The stainless steel polishing pads do a nice job.\u00a0\u00a0 Also cleaned all the soot from the bottom of the pan facing the fire.\u00a0 The bottom is just as clean as the inside.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The inside of the big pan is clean.\u00a0\u00a0 About 2\/3 of the bottom remains.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a dirty task cleaning all the soot off the bottom.\u00a0 Scrap with a sharp putty knife.\u00a0\u00a0 Spray with oven cleaner.\u00a0\u00a0 Polish with the polishing pads.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>If you did not know, you would never guess these pans are 35 years old.\u00a0 They look like new.<\/p>\n<p>We noticed the robins are quite fat.\u00a0\u00a0 The warm weather must be making it easy to find food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And places in land away from Lake Michigan are reaching 80 degrees.\u00a0\u00a0 We had about 63.\u00a0 Its too warm.\u00a0\u00a0 We can not make assumptions about the future based on one year.\u00a0\u00a0 But if warm winters happen a few times a decade that could adversely effect maple syrup seasons. Into the woods by 9:00 AM.\u00a0\u00a0 Back [&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-308","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\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}