And we begin season 97.<\/p>\n
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70 taps out today. \u00a0Was trying for 100 but feet got wet and cold. \u00a0 \u00a0The snow is brutal. \u00a0Its 18\u201d to 20\u201d deep but the depth is not the problem. \u00a0The snow is very fine. \u00a0It does not bind or pack. \u00a0It envelops your feet. \u00a0Its like walking in very fine sand. \u00a0Takes a lot of energy to get through.<\/span><\/p>\n Got back to Wisconsin Feb 26. \u00a0Spent the past week washing buckets and spouts. \u00a0Still trying to get the feel of starting the tractor. \u00a0During off season we had the electrical completely redone on the H. \u00a0The wiring was old, bad and incorrect. \u00a0Now the battery actually holds a charge. \u00a0And we have head lights! \u00a0Its been 35-40 years since they worked. \u00a0 \u00a0 Its just a little different feel now to start it that I am still getting used to.<\/span><\/p>\n Also fixed the tire on the wagon. \u00a0That become a problem last season. \u00a0 Fortunately we got through but it was dicey a few times. \u00a0The wagon uses 15\u201d tires which are had to get used because a lot of people use 15\u201d tires for wagons and trailers.<\/span><\/p>\n We had a storm in August that broke off a large limb from a tree. \u00a0It fell on the electrical wire to the syrup building. \u00a0It snapped off the power pole. \u00a0 It was just a year ago we put in the 100 amp\/220 volt circuit. \u00a0Repairing that was an unexpected expense.<\/span><\/p>\n Its been a very cold winter. \u00a0Second or third coldest on record. \u00a0Very deep frost. \u00a0The East Twin river by us may be frozen solid. \u00a0Lake Michigan is 89% frozen over. \u00a0 There have been around 50 days of below zero. \u00a0A few days had wind chills of -50. \u00a0No major snow storms, but a steady stream of 2\u201d-4\u201d of snow. \u00a0 \u00a0We have around 60\u201d for the Winter so far.<\/span><\/p>\n It was only 25 today. \u00a0But it was sunny and the sun warms the trees. \u00a0The sap is starting to move in the trees. \u00a0 Quite a few of the taps were wet. \u00a0Sunday the weather breaks with highs in the mid 30’s. \u00a0So its time to get the taps out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And we begin season 97. \u00a0 70 taps out today. \u00a0Was trying for 100 but feet got wet and cold. \u00a0 \u00a0The snow is brutal. \u00a0Its 18\u201d to 20\u201d deep but the depth is not the problem. \u00a0The snow is very fine. \u00a0It does not bind or pack. \u00a0It envelops your feet. \u00a0Its like walking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-season-97"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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