{"id":593,"date":"2018-04-08T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2020-02-22T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:22:28","slug":"bucket-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Bucket Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 10:30 AM.&nbsp; The task for the day: all the taps out, all the buckets back to the farmhouse.&nbsp; By 2:30 PM all the spouts were out and the buckets\/covers gathered&nbsp; to various points close to the trails for pickup.&nbsp; &nbsp; Hopped on the utility vehicle to pickup the buckets\/covers and bring them to the farmhouse.&nbsp; Arranged the buckets, upside down, in 10 rows by 10 columns so we could get an accurate count.&nbsp; &nbsp;We had 511 taps out.&nbsp; Adjusted our \u201cSeason @ A Glance\u201d widget from 507 to 511.<\/p>\n<p>6 overnight.&nbsp; Record cold for April 7.&nbsp; Sunny and mid 30s during the day.&nbsp; Some trees still dripping.&nbsp; There was approx 100 gallons of sap we dumped.&nbsp; It was mostly ice because at 6 sap does not stay liquid.&nbsp; &nbsp;Quite possible that producers on vacuum will have additional sap runs.&nbsp; If we had more time we may have let the buckets out.&nbsp; Forecast for the week has freeze\/thaw cycles.&nbsp; And frost is still in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the farmhouse by 6:30 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into the woods by 10:30 AM.&nbsp; The task for the day: all the taps out, all the buckets back to the farmhouse.&nbsp; By 2:30 PM all the spouts were out and the buckets\/covers gathered&nbsp; to various points close to the trails for pickup.&nbsp; &nbsp; Hopped on the utility vehicle to pickup the buckets\/covers and bring [&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-593","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\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}