{"id":436,"date":"2015-04-02T22:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2015-04-02T22:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T22:43:45","slug":"different-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Different Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 63 today. \u00a0Only 40s overnight. \u00a0Its interesting to see the day change when you are outside all day. \u00a0Daybreak was sunny, but quickly got cloudy. \u00a0By 11:00 AM it rained. \u00a0Not a lot but got the surfaces wet. \u00a0By 2:30 PM it cleared and got sunny. \u00a0 Tonight close to freezing and cooler tomorrow: only 40s. \u00a0We are hoping for one more sap run maybe by Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Into the woods by 8:00 AM. \u00a0Its a different routine cooking with the R\/O. \u00a0 Still clean the syrup pan first, but then switch on the R\/O. \u00a0225 gallons of sap becomes 112 gallons of concentrate. \u00a0 By 10:00 you are feeding sap into the evaporator. \u00a0Batches of syrup become ready quickly. \u00a0By 3:00 PM our concentrate tank was empty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We bottled syrup at 3:30 PM. \u00a0By 5:15 we were back in the farm house. \u00a0 \u00a0By comparison without the R\/O it would have been 8:00 PM \u2013 9:00 PM before finishing both today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It felt like a sauna in the syrup building today. \u00a0When its warm outside the heat from the steam makes it even warmer inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 63 today. \u00a0Only 40s overnight. \u00a0Its interesting to see the day change when you are outside all day. \u00a0Daybreak was sunny, but quickly got cloudy. \u00a0By 11:00 AM it rained. \u00a0Not a lot but got the surfaces wet. \u00a0By 2:30 PM it cleared and got sunny. \u00a0 Tonight close to freezing and cooler [&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-436","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\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}