What \u00a0a day. \u00a0Raining yet at 5:30 AM. \u00a0By 7:15 it turned to a wintery mix. \u00a0By 9:00 AM the temperature dropped just enough to give snow. \u00a0 10 hours later its still snowing. \u00a0 We also have a strong North wind giving us near blizzard conditions at times. \u00a0We’ve had a good 6\u201d maybe more. \u00a0Through all of this we were preparing for and started cooking sap.<\/p>\n
Started setting up the R\/O. \u00a0Got the pipes up. \u00a0Then got a call from the location television station. \u00a0They wanted to come out to do a story. \u00a0 \u00a0They were here about 1 \u00bd hours. \u00a0Left at Noon. \u00a0We did get the evaporator fired up so the television station had something interesting. \u00a0Wanted to do that anyway to get a start on cooking. \u00a0With colder weather coming we wanted to get yesterday’s sap cooked. \u00a0That didn’t quite work out.<\/p>\n
Spent all afternoon on the R\/O. \u00a0Had to haul over water to prepare the membrane. \u00a0Had a 100 gallon tank for water but our hoses weren’t long enough to fill from the sink in the house. \u00a0Finally pieced together two hoses from the syrup building that we use with the pump. \u00a0Otherwise we would have to use buckets to fill the tank. \u00a0Trying to back trailer close to the building was also a challenge with the snow and soft ground under the snow. \u00a0At one point we dropped a screw driver into the water tank. \u00a0Had to take off outer shell, fleece liner and roll up shirt sleeves and reach into the water tank to \u00a0to fish out the screen driver. \u00a0 Its mid-20s with a strong North wind and blowing snow and we’re standing outside with rolled up sleeves reaching into cold water. \u00a0You may get cold just reading that.<\/p>\n
Got 100 gallons in the R\/O water tank only to realize once again that water does not flow up hill. \u00a0Our new R\/O water tank is too low. \u00a0We’ll need to block it up.<\/p>\n
Now its 4:00 PM. \u00a0Snow and blowing hard. \u00a0Our hands have been warm, cold, wet, dry so many times today they don’t seem to register the differences any more. \u00a0Realized that our day of cooking with the R\/O and then just cooking was a bust. \u00a0Its getting colder and we have to start thinking about how we keep the tanks from freezing. \u00a0We had one tank heater. \u00a0Picked up three more so three sap tanks and one water tank could have a heater. \u00a0The tank heaters arrived about 6:30 PM. \u00a0Got them inserted but we tripped one circuit breaker when we tried to connect two heaters on the same circuit.<\/p>\n
Back to the house by 7:15 PM. \u00a012 hours in the woods. \u00a0In a snow storm. \u00a0The things we do to make Maple Syrup.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow and Friday are also cold but the weekend warms to the 50’s again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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