Week of 1/20/25

This week it started out very cold again with the temp dropping to -7 in the morning and getting up to a high of 4 degrees with a very heavy and stiff north wind. I had some business in Dodgeville in the morning and in the afternoon we stayed in the house to keep the wood fire going. In the evening the cows came down off the windy ridge where their feed is to the less windy valley.

Tuesday morning was a chilly -16 and was still very windy and only getting up to -2. I guess the cows knew the weather that was coming and I stayed in during the morning and made telephone calls to bookstores about handling my book The Heart Remembers. In the afternoon I had some business in Muscoda.

On Wednesday it got much warmer, climbing to 24 degrees from a low of 2 so I did some real work on Wednesday afternoon. I split at least 1/2 a cord of wood that I had cut earlier.

Thursday turned a bit colder again after getting an inch and a half (1 1/2”) of snow. Wednesday night had been getting up to 15 after a low of -2. I took some hay up to the cows, who had returned to the ridge. I then put the wood in the barn that I had split yesterday; by this time it was noon. After dinner, I took a nice nap and then made some phone calls to bookstores. I made a number of good connections. I will deliver some books to a store on Monday. A couple of others will order from INGRAM or Dorrance. It’s always a pleasure talking to the bookstore people. They are open-minded and interested in what’s new and what the people have to say. Whereas the mainstream media will only report on what they deem worthy. I think it is fair to call them narrow-minded people, book banners, and with holders of the true information about the people in power as the browning of their noses always comes from whichever side is in power. Very much like the courts. Where the different sides each have their own judges that will find some law saying the exact opposite depending on who holds the power.

By Friday it was cold again starting out with a -9 before warming up to 22. I had a doctor’s appointment in the morning to take a CAT scan of my jaw that was replaced a number of years ago when a tumor was removed. It appears to be getting bigger again. The story about that is in my book as well. When I got home I cracked two ice-cream buckets of black walnuts.

Saturday started out cool as a low of 7 but then it warmed up to a very nice 35. I decided to crack two more ice cream buckets of walnuts Saturday morning. My daughter Tina and my grandson Caleb stopped in to visit in the afternoon. I also cut a mule load of wood. Sunday started out at a cold 4 degrees but cleared up and got sunny with the temperature getting up to 31 degrees.

Sunday was a day of rest and is when I wrote up this blog. This next Saturday, February 1st, I will have a book signing at the Paisley Star in Boscobel Wisconsin. From 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

-Helmuth Krause