{"id":570,"date":"2018-03-17T19:42:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2020-02-22T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:30:56","slug":"let-the-trees-drip-into-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Let The Trees Drip Into The Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>18 overnight again.&nbsp; Sunny and 47 today but when it starts so cold it takes the trees a long time to warm up.&nbsp; &nbsp;Temperature up to 35 by 9:00 AM.&nbsp; By Noon a few signs the trees would drip.&nbsp; By 2:00 PM the trees were dripping slowly.&nbsp; By 4:00 PM there was steady drip but it was too late to collect and not really enough sap yet in the buckets: we need more than two hours of a run.&nbsp; &nbsp; Let the trees drip into the evening then collect tomorrow.&nbsp; Forecast is for upper 20s tonight and 50 tomorrow.&nbsp; Should be a good day.<\/p>\n<p>The ground is still cold.&nbsp; Ice doesn&#8217;t melt easily.&nbsp; The ground is hard when we walk on it, not soft or muddy.&nbsp; The ice is still in on the river.&nbsp; With the cold nights it probably added ice again after the February warm spell.&nbsp; The biggest sap runs usually coincide with the frost coming out.<\/p>\n<p>Fixed a few taps.&nbsp; Did a wash cycle on the R\/O.<\/p>\n<p>Started our bottling project at 10:00 AM.&nbsp; A batch from last weekend was over density and starting to crystallize.&nbsp; It poured like molasses.&nbsp; Emptied the bottles.&nbsp; Added sap to lower the density then reboiled to bring back to the proper density.&nbsp; &nbsp;Its time consuming.&nbsp; Finished at 4:00 PM.&nbsp; &nbsp;Then started another batch.&nbsp; The new propane burners finished it it less than an hour.&nbsp; We have to adjust our planning for that.&nbsp; &nbsp;Back to the farmhouse by 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 overnight again.&nbsp; Sunny and 47 today but when it starts so cold it takes the trees a long time to warm up.&nbsp; &nbsp;Temperature up to 35 by 9:00 AM.&nbsp; By Noon a few signs the trees would drip.&nbsp; By 2:00 PM the trees were dripping slowly.&nbsp; By 4:00 PM there was steady drip but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-season-101"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}