{"id":483,"date":"2016-04-02T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2020-02-23T19:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T14:58:39","slug":"all-buckets-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"All Buckets Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 8:00 AM get syrup on the finishing pan.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; While it heated we returned to the buckets.&nbsp;&nbsp; Finished taking down all the buckets and spouts by 3:00 PM however there was a break of several hours for bottling.&nbsp;&nbsp; The buckets and covers are still in the woods up side down to dry.&nbsp; We&#8217;re hoping for a window of dry weather the next few days so we can get them all in and stored for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Syrup was ready by 10:30.&nbsp; Bottled 17 quarts and&nbsp; 1 pint.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Its darker but sill looks nice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We had snow squalls all day.&nbsp; A few minutes of intense snow then sunshine again.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nothing accumulated.&nbsp; But right now it snowing hard with \u00bc to \u00bd inch accumulation.&nbsp; Everything is white again.&nbsp; Won&#8217;t last.<\/p>\n<p>Once all the buckets were down we turned out attention to the evaporator.&nbsp;&nbsp; Took out about 15 gallons of sap.&nbsp; Expecting 2-3 gallons of syrup from it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tomorrow we get a tank of water and start the fire to clean the pan while we finishing the remaining sap.<\/p>\n<p>Back to house by 4:30 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 8:00 AM get syrup on the finishing pan.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; While it heated we returned to the buckets.&nbsp;&nbsp; Finished taking down all the buckets and spouts by 3:00 PM however there was a break of several hours for bottling.&nbsp;&nbsp; The buckets and covers are still in the woods up side down to dry.&nbsp; [&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-483","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\/483","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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}