{"id":530,"date":"2017-04-01T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T13:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2020-02-23T02:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T21:58:01","slug":"last-collection-buckets-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Last Collection.  Buckets Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 overnight. &nbsp;That was unexpected. &nbsp;Sunny and warm today. &nbsp;Up to 60. &nbsp;The trees gave a small last run. &nbsp; The sap is not sweet: 1.4 \u00b0Bx which is 60:1. &nbsp;Picked up 230 gallons which will boil down to just under 4 gallons of syrup. &nbsp;It will likely be darker too, but that&#8217;s okay as people like the dark syrup for cooking.<\/p>\n<p>When we emptied the pail we did not replace it on the spout. &nbsp;Instead we turned it over and set it on the ground to drain and dry. &nbsp; The pail stays by the tree so we know how many spouts are on the tree. &nbsp;If we moved the pail its likely we&#8217;ll miss a spout and the spout stays in the tree until we notice it while tapping next spring. &nbsp;The spout doesn&#8217;t hurt the tree, but it delays healing the tap wound.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we&#8217;ll cook. &nbsp;Then we get into cleanup mode. &nbsp;We have enough time this year for cleanup so it won&#8217;t be rushed.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is also warm: high 50s. &nbsp;Then rain is forecast for next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 overnight. &nbsp;That was unexpected. &nbsp;Sunny and warm today. &nbsp;Up to 60. &nbsp;The trees gave a small last run. &nbsp; The sap is not sweet: 1.4 \u00b0Bx which is 60:1. &nbsp;Picked up 230 gallons which will boil down to just under 4 gallons of syrup. &nbsp;It will likely be darker too, but that&#8217;s okay as [&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-530","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\/530","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=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}