Picked up 525 gallons at 2.0 Brix. \u00a0It ran into late last night. \u00a0Then started again today after the snow.<\/p>\n
We got about 1 \u00bd inches of snow early this morning. \u00a0Everything was white for a few hours. \u00a0 At 6:00 AM it was snowing pretty hard. \u00a0The snow stopped by 7:30 AM. \u00a0 It was cloudy all day but warmed to the low 40s. \u00a0 The snow melted and sap ran. \u00a0Because of the R\/O we had a day off from cooking today.<\/p>\n
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We checked the buckets around 1:00 PM. \u00a0A lot were full. \u00a0Called everyone for collecting and headed out by 3:00 PM. \u00a0 Had a 225 gallon tank full by 4:00 PM. \u00a0Started the R\/O to process it while heading out for the second tank otherwise we would not have enough tank space to hold the sap. \u00a0 We now have 175 gallons of concentrate at 4.0 or 4.2 Brix. \u00a0And about 175 gallons of raw sap at 2.0 Brix. \u00a0We will hold off running that through the R\/O until we finish cooking the 175 gallons of concentrate.<\/p>\n
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And water. \u00a0We now have excess water. \u00a0That has never happened before. \u00a0Every drop of water ever used from all the past seasons came from milk cans hauled on the tractor from the farmhouse. \u00a0The R\/O gives us water. \u00a0Some we need for cleaning the R\/O but the rest we can use. \u00a0Or dump, which seems just wrong considering all the water we hauled over the years.<\/p>\n
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Tonight 28. \u00a0Tomorrow 37, but then turns colder with lows in the teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Picked up 525 gallons at 2.0 Brix. \u00a0It ran into late last night. \u00a0Then started again today after the snow. We got about 1 \u00bd inches of snow early this morning. \u00a0Everything was white for a few hours. \u00a0 At 6:00 AM it was snowing pretty hard. \u00a0The snow stopped by 7:30 AM. \u00a0 It […]<\/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-428","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\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}