Week of 11/17/24
This week the weather started out cloudy and wet with the clouds staying the whole week. On Monday I planted walnuts until noon. We got a light rain in the afternoon and heavier rain at night, for a total of 1.5 inches by Tuesday morning. I then planted walnuts again until noon. Then I went out to see if we could get the books in more stores. So we went to a place in Boscobel called the Paisley Star, then later to a place called Country View Market just outside Platteville. They both agreed to take some to sell. Thats two more places for customers to buy books.
On Wednesday I took Ruth to see the chiropractor in Mineral Point as her back had been giving her a lot of pain. While we were there I decided to stop by the local library and donate one of my books. So now there are 4 local libraries that readers can check out the book, including Muscoda, Spring Green, Dodgeville, and Mineral Point.
On Thursday we got out first snow of the season, about an inch. We also got two calls, one from a book promotion company called BookMarc Alliance and the other one being a movie company called Creative Productions. I had a long talk with them, and there may be a big story on them later.
On Friday I checked out the woods to see what deer runs looked the best as the gun deer season opens on Saturday the 23rd. I also plan to plant walnuts each day until my legs tell me to quit. I now have 1500 in the ground and I hope to have at least 2000 in before the ground freezes up.
On Saturday I came in from hunting and there was a nice surprise, somebody had brought me a batch of cookies. It was a little 7 year old girl from Highland School. On veterans day she had wrote me a letter thanking me for my service. I had wrote her a letter back and she baked some cookies for me, what a very nice person she is.
My hunting hasn’t been very successful so far. On Saturday I was on the wrong run as a doe and her 3 fawns crossed a valley a ways down from where I was.
On Sunday morning spotted a doe and her fawn about a hundred yards from me and she just stood there broadside. “Too good to be true I thought,” so I decided to take a neck shot at her. I shot and she jumped about 10 feet in the air then took off into the brush. I figured I had her, but I guess I had missed. I searched the hillside for about an hour but couldn’t find her or any blood, but without any snow it is hard to tell. Thats the way this week ended.
-Helmuth Krause
