{"id":515,"date":"2017-03-17T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2020-02-23T03:06:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T22:06:46","slug":"thawed-out-evaporator-and-buckets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Thawed Out Evaporator And Buckets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much warmer overnight: 30. \u00a0No wintery mix at 6:00 AM. \u00a0By 6:45 AM it started to snow. \u00a0Hard. \u00a0By 9:00 AM we had 2\u201d of wet, heavy snow. \u00a0Snow changed to drizzle. \u00a0 By 11:00 AM precipitation stopped. \u00a0Stayed \u00a0cloudy the rest of the day. \u00a0Sun was forecast. \u00a0Warmed to mid-30s. \u00a0The trees did start to drip and ice in the buckets started melting.<\/p>\n<p>At Noon we headed into the woods to thaw out the evaporator. With a week of cold weather it was all ice. \u00a0We need to use a low fire to slowly melt the ice otherwise the lack of liquid will scorch the pans.<\/p>\n<p>By 3:00 PM we started collecting. \u00a0Wanted sap for the open house tomorrow. \u00a0We knew there was sap in the buckets, but there was also lots of ice. \u00a0 Usually we dump ice but with such big blocks we saved it in the buckets after pouring out the liquid that had already melted from the ice. \u00a0Picked up 210 gallons. \u00a0Te sap was 3.4 Brix. \u00a0Ice is natures R\/O.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is warmer: 40s, but the forecast changed to cloudy. \u00a0Sun would have been nicer. \u00a0 Tomorrow is day one of the open house for season 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much warmer overnight: 30. \u00a0No wintery mix at 6:00 AM. \u00a0By 6:45 AM it started to snow. \u00a0Hard. \u00a0By 9:00 AM we had 2\u201d of wet, heavy snow. \u00a0Snow changed to drizzle. \u00a0 By 11:00 AM precipitation stopped. \u00a0Stayed \u00a0cloudy the rest of the day. \u00a0Sun was forecast. \u00a0Warmed to mid-30s. \u00a0The trees did start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-season-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}