{"id":484,"date":"2016-04-03T20:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2020-02-23T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T14:58:12","slug":"a-lot-of-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"A Lot Of Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 8:00 AM to cook the sap from the evaporator.&nbsp; It was only 25 gallons but took about 7 hours.&nbsp; The front syrup pan does not boil as much as the flue pan.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was frustrating waiting for it to cook.&nbsp;&nbsp; We slowly tapered off the heat so we could empty the pan with just about no fire under it.&nbsp; The final batch will be 20-24 quarts.&nbsp; More then we expected.&nbsp; Back to the house by 6:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Started the day by taking off the flue pan to rise out the big stuff.&nbsp; The evaporator is actually not that bad.&nbsp;&nbsp; The R\/O removes a lot of the sugar sand so it does not accumulate.<\/p>\n<p>Got the tractor to get a tank of water.&nbsp;&nbsp; After the tank was full, the tractor did not start.&nbsp;&nbsp; Used a smaller cart to get the tank to the woods.&nbsp;&nbsp; The ground was frozen because it was 20 last night otherwise that cart couldn&#8217;t pull it.&nbsp; The tractor is still outside in&nbsp; the yard.&nbsp; Tried the battery charger too.&nbsp; No success.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t even turn over.&nbsp;&nbsp; Same as the problem from February 27.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll call the mechanic in the morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The outside faucet we use to fill the tank was frozen.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Used our new paint striper to melt the ice in the pipe.<\/p>\n<p>Green sprouts are starting to push up in the woods.&nbsp; Spring is coming and plants are retuning to life.&nbsp; But it was cold this morning.&nbsp; About 25 with a cold wind when we went into the woods..&nbsp; Everything was white from yesterday.&nbsp; Put on the insulated coveralls.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Snow squalls most of the day again.&nbsp; By the end of the day the sun briefly appeared.&nbsp;&nbsp; It did reach 42 but tonight it drops to 25 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 8:00 AM to cook the sap from the evaporator.&nbsp; It was only 25 gallons but took about 7 hours.&nbsp; The front syrup pan does not boil as much as the flue pan.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was frustrating waiting for it to cook.&nbsp;&nbsp; We slowly tapered off the heat so we could empty the [&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-484","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\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}