{"id":538,"date":"2017-04-08T17:53:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T12:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2020-02-23T02:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T21:55:01","slug":"everything-in-the-milk-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Everything In The Milk Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 overnight. &nbsp;Sunny and 55 today. &nbsp;Into the woods by 8:00 AM to work on cleanup. &nbsp;Pulled all the remaining spouts. &nbsp;Completed that by 9:00 AM. &nbsp;Disconnected and drained everything on the R\/O so it could dry out during the day. &nbsp;Brought the R\/O back to the farmhouse this evening. &nbsp; Some people have &nbsp;big screen TVs in their living room. &nbsp;We have an R\/O.<\/p>\n<p>Got a tank of water. &nbsp;Filled the flue pan of the evaporator with water and front pan with 2 1\/2 gallons of the remaining sap to cook. &nbsp;Started the evaporator at 11:00 AM. &nbsp; &nbsp;It took 5 hours to cook those 15 gallons. &nbsp;Can&#8217;t fire hard and only the front pan doesn&#8217;t evaporate at the same rate as the flue pan. &nbsp;All the remaining sap is now cooked to 28 \u00b0Baume and in the milk can. &nbsp;Tomorrow we finish and bottle it. &nbsp;Looks like it will be around 5 gallons. &nbsp;More then we anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we start the day by picking up the buckets and covers from the woods. &nbsp;They go into the garage for off-season storage. &nbsp;Then bottle and count up our crop total for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 overnight. &nbsp;Sunny and 55 today. &nbsp;Into the woods by 8:00 AM to work on cleanup. &nbsp;Pulled all the remaining spouts. &nbsp;Completed that by 9:00 AM. &nbsp;Disconnected and drained everything on the R\/O so it could dry out during the day. &nbsp;Brought the R\/O back to the farmhouse this evening. &nbsp; Some people have &nbsp;big [&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-538","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\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}