{"id":455,"date":"2016-03-06T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2020-02-23T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T15:10:22","slug":"sap-today-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Sap Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up 265 gallons of sap.&nbsp; 2.5 degrees Brix.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only down to 30 or 31 overnight.&nbsp; The day started cloudy.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Around 9:00 AM the sun appeared.&nbsp;&nbsp; Clouds move back in but we had brief periods of sun.&nbsp; Helped warm the trees to start running.&nbsp;&nbsp; We went out about 2:30 to collect.&nbsp; Dumped ice that was in the buckets.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not as big a run as last weekend but we take whatever we can.<\/p>\n<p>We get a warm weather patten the new few days.&nbsp; Highs in the 40s or even 50s.&nbsp; But no freezing nights.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#8217;s not good for sap runs.&nbsp; There is still frost in the ground so we will wait it out.&nbsp;&nbsp; We&#8217;ve had warm spells during past seasons.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Installed the wash tank heater on the R\/O.&nbsp; Should reduce wash time from 8 hours to under 1 hour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Filled the R\/O holding&nbsp; tank with water.&nbsp; Tomorrow we run a cold wash cycle to prepared the R\/O for use.&nbsp; Then&nbsp; we plan to use it on the 265 gallons we picked up today.<\/p>\n<p>It may not freeze tonight.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll see what tomorrow brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up 265 gallons of sap.&nbsp; 2.5 degrees Brix.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Only down to 30 or 31 overnight.&nbsp; The day started cloudy.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Around 9:00 AM the sun appeared.&nbsp;&nbsp; Clouds move back in but we had brief periods of sun.&nbsp; Helped warm the trees to start running.&nbsp;&nbsp; We went out about 2:30 to collect.&nbsp; Dumped ice that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-season-99"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}