{"id":333,"date":"2013-03-18T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T01:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2013-03-18T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T01:22:04","slug":"syrup-every-two-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Syrup Every Two Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 degrees this morning.\u00a0 Mostly sunny with a few clouds today.\u00a0 High of 27.\u00a0 We had lake effect snow too.\u00a0 Sunny and no clouds yet snow flurries can only be caused by lake effect snow.\u00a0 The March sun is warm and even though its below 32, in the direct sun there is some melt.\u00a0 Maple syrup producers\u00a0 using vacuum could be getting sap.<\/p>\n<p>We are so thankful we collected when it was liquid or we would have had blocks of ice for several days.\u00a0 The tank warmer worked.\u00a0 No ice in the storage tank overnight.\u00a0 The valve did freeze and needed the small propane torch to thaw.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>A year ago today the high was 78 degrees.\u00a0 Today 27.\u00a0\u00a0 The five day forecast is for high temperatures in the upper 20s and lows in the teens to single digits.\u00a0 This is not sap weather.\u00a0 But at least cold weather does not end the season like warm weather does.\u00a0 Tomorrow we get maybe 2\u201d of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Boiled all day.\u00a0 Took five batches of syrup off the evaporator.\u00a0 About every 2 hours we had syrup ready.\u00a0 Boiled through 225 gallons today.\u00a0 The tanks are empty.\u00a0 And two milk cans are full of syrup waiting to be finished and bottled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 degrees this morning.\u00a0 Mostly sunny with a few clouds today.\u00a0 High of 27.\u00a0 We had lake effect snow too.\u00a0 Sunny and no clouds yet snow flurries can only be caused by lake effect snow.\u00a0 The March sun is warm and even though its below 32, in the direct sun there is some melt.\u00a0 Maple [&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-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-season96"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}