{"id":41,"date":"2009-11-30T20:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T01:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:21:39","slug":"hope-you-had-a-good-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"I went rabbit hunting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went rabbit hunting for the first time this year. We got 4 inches of snow last night so they were sitting tight. I missed 1 shot and the fella that came out had his gun jam twice. As he put it – If this was what we depended on we’d be hungry. We have 3 weeks of wood in the basement so we’ll be keeping warm. Let it snow. The pond I put in 3 years ago is really filling nicely. We were walking on it today. It is an acre – as big as a football field.<\/p>\n

I have been clearing snow off the ponds to let sunlight get to the plants in the pond.\u00a0 If you do not do that you risk having plants die which can result in a fish kill.\u00a0 The ice under the snow is as smooth as glass.\u00a0 If I had the time and energy we could have great skating.\u00a0 If our son still lived at home we would be playing hockey.\u00a0 We used to do that when he was younger.\u00a0 The new pond would be fantastic for skating because it is so big.<\/p>\n

\"Maple<\/p>\n

We went and bought Maple Syrup supplies today.\u00a0 Glass jars 8oz, plastic jugs quarts, lables and extra caps.\u00a0 We will tap sometime in March.\u00a0 We do about 100 taps.\u00a0 It takes around 40 gallons of sap to boil down to a gallon of syrup.\u00a0 Last year we made 15 gallons of syrup.\u00a0 As you can see our set up is pretty basic.\u00a0 What you are seeing is a flat pan.\u00a0 The pan rests on angle iron on top of the cement blocks.\u00a0 The fire is inside the metal sheeting under the pan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went rabbit hunting for the first time this year. We got 4 inches of snow last night so they were sitting tight. I missed 1 shot and the fella that came out had his gun jam twice. As he put it – If this was what we depended on we’d be hungry. We have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}