Week of 10/20/24

It’s been another busy week. We have been harvesting corn for my son Ted this week. I start in the morning and work until Tayden, Teds son, gets home from school. Then Tayden takes over and they work till well after dark. On Thursday night they finished the harvest. While it was a fair crop overall, it wasn’t as good as expected with this summers ample rain. In places where the water would stand the crop was very poor. On the well drained ground the crop was very good but it couldn’t quite make up for the wet ground as Ted has a lot of level land with low spots.

On Friday I went to the chiropractor as both my back and right shoulder had been giving me quite a bit of pain. There was a knot the size of a golf ball on the back of my shoulder. The chiropractor spent about half an hour working that down. It feels a lot better now.

We are done with our Saturday farmers market so I finished filling the wood shed at my home. About 4 full cords as we use mostly wood to heat the house in the winter months. Ruth went to the orchard up at Gays Mills and got a few bushel of pie apples that she will slice up and freeze for next summers farmers market.

With the cool frosty nights the critters are getting a lot more active. I seen a number of buck deer on the move during the day time this past week. The squirrels are working overtime gathering nuts. I had a huge gathering of vultures circling overhead the other day getting ready to go south. But where have all the redwing blackbirds gone? Just a few years ago I would see floods of hundreds of thousands covering a whole hillside so all that you would see is black, like a blanket had been thrown over the field. This year all I see is a few hundred at a time siting on the telephone wires. Maybe they are in a different area this year.

The book is selling weel and we are out again, and we are now waiting for the next shipment.

-Helmuth Krause