{"id":416,"date":"2015-03-14T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T22:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2015-03-14T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T22:10:01","slug":"cooked-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Cooked Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did not freeze overnight. \u00a0Up to 53 today. \u00a0Sunny, but windy. \u00a0Into the woods by 10:00 AM to cook the sap from yesterday. \u00a0Finished that by 4:30 PM. \u00a0Two more batches of syrup in the milk can.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another local maple syrup producer stopped by. \u00a0He too is waiting for better weather. \u00a0He said his sap was only 1.5 or 1.6 Brix. \u00a0We at least had 2.0 Brix. \u00a0Typically very early sap is low sugar. \u00a0During the main season it rises to 2.0 to 4.0 Brix. \u00a0Then drops off as the season ends. \u00a0 \u00a0So maybe we are still in very early season sap. \u00a0 Wish we know more about what happens inside the tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is warm again. \u00a0By Tuesday its forecast to change to more normal patterns.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An observation: once the snow is gone 40 degrees feels cold. \u00a0While the snow is on the ground 40 degrees feels warm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did not freeze overnight. \u00a0Up to 53 today. \u00a0Sunny, but windy. \u00a0Into the woods by 10:00 AM to cook the sap from yesterday. \u00a0Finished that by 4:30 PM. \u00a0Two more batches of syrup in the milk can. \u00a0 Another local maple syrup producer stopped by. \u00a0He too is waiting for better weather. \u00a0He said his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-season-98"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}