Week of 11/24/24

Not anything exciting happened this week. I planted walnuts the first 4 days until the ground froze to hard to get the spade in. I got a least 2,000 planted and I got a place for another 1,000. That will have to wait until spring.

I also did a little hunting in the early morning and again in the evening. I didn’t see any deer from last sunday until this sunda morning I saw a deer with her two fawns. I didn’t get a shot at them as they spotted me and took off through the brush. I don’t like to shoot unless I can get a killing shot, not white flags going away.

On Wednesday Ruth baked 7 pies as she had orders for them for peoples thanksgiving dinners.

Now that the ground is froze to hard to plant walnuts, I started on the wood splitting. On Friday I split two gator loads of cherry wood that I had cut last summer from the trees that had blown down. Also on friday evening we went to our daughter Tina’s for Thanksgiving dinner as usual I ate too much and then there was that counter full of desserts; my weakness. That strawberry cheesecake was so good, I couldn’t believe my gut could put that much food away.

Also on Thursday, the 28th, on Thanksgiving Day, I turned 92.

Saturday morning I went shopping with Ruth. In the afternoon I got a couple of logs out of the woods to cut up for firewood. One thing I noticed is there are no Blue-Jays in the woods to sound the alarm when something enters the woods. I do not know where they are hiding out. I didn’t get out to promote the book this week.

I will also be at the Highland School on Saturday December 7th selling maple syrup, pies, and doing a book signing! Come see me there.

-Helmuth Krause