{"id":329,"date":"2013-03-14T02:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2013-03-14T02:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:42:15","slug":"winter-is-hanging-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Winter Is Hanging On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was cold last night.\u00a0 Thermometer said 18 this morning, but it must have been colder overnight as the evaporator had ice on it.\u00a0 It was sunny, but cold all day.\u00a0 Might have reached 34 late this afternoon as there was some melt.\u00a0 Very glad we collected yesterday otherwise we would have solid ice in the buckets.<\/p>\n<p>The tanks did have a thin layer of ice.\u00a0 The concern was now the pipes.\u00a0 The pipes were empty, but when you run liquid through cold pipes it can freeze up.\u00a0 So we warmed the pipes before trying to open the valves.\u00a0 Used the heating tape outside and the small propane touch inside to warm the pipes.\u00a0 It worked: when we opened the values the sap flowed from the tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Boiled all day.\u00a0 Four batches of syrup into the milk can.\u00a0 About every 2 \u00bd hours a batch was ready.\u00a0 We boiled through 260 gallons in 12 hours so that&#8217;s 22 gallons an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is cold again: forecast is for 8.\u00a0\u00a0 Friday we could get several inches of snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was cold last night.\u00a0 Thermometer said 18 this morning, but it must have been colder overnight as the evaporator had ice on it.\u00a0 It was sunny, but cold all day.\u00a0 Might have reached 34 late this afternoon as there was some melt.\u00a0 Very glad we collected yesterday otherwise we would have solid ice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-season96"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}