Week of 12/22/25
After last weeks end of bitter cold we are back to warmer weather.
On Monday after a low of 24 we got to 36 for a high and the snow began to melt. I went to the woods after chores and had nice working until about 11:30 when a light rain started and the snow got very slippery. I then quit that job for the day. In the afternoon I called a number of book stores about putting my book, The Heart Remembers, in their store. Some seemed promising so I will be visiting them after the new year.
After a good hard freeze with a low of 10 degrees on Monday night I went back to the woods on Tuesday. I worked there until noon, by then with it being a sunny day the snow was getting wet and slippery, in the afternoon I bedded the calf barn and took a nap and watched some Judge Judy on T.V. She mostly always gets things right but she thinks very highly of herself and and treats those in front of her with no respect at all, often calling them stupid for not knowing the law.
On Wednesday I hauled wood I had cut earlier in the woods down to the splitter. I did some hunting in the morning and again later in the afternoon.
On Thursday it was a cloudy and foggy day with some light mist at times, making the snow very slippery. I split wood until noon. I needed to take hay to the cows up on the ridge. I knew the tractor couldn’t make it up without tire chains. They were too heavy for me to handle so Ted and Tayden came and put them on. I then filled the feeders on the ridge with hay.
On Friday morning it was cloudy and very foggy. We had a nice syrup sale early with 20 quarts sold. The person gives them as gifts at their Christmas get-togethers, I then went hunting no more then I got in the woods and jumped a big doe. I got off what I thought would be a killing shot but it wasn’t but it left a blood trail. I tracked it for over an hour until I found it had left my property and went into a woods where the land was posted; what a shame. It had to be only a flesh wound as the deer never laid down and moved on all four feet. She should live. It was starting to rain by then and as the land was posted I had to let it go. That afternoon we had a funeral to go to in Avoca for a fellow veteran. He was only 82.
Saturday was a partly sunny day with temps in the mid 40s. The snow was now all gone. I split wood and put it in the barn in the morning. In the afternoon I cleaned the calf yard and bedded the barn. My granddaughters Ashley and Taylor stopped by, along with Ashley’s fiancé Ty stopped by to visit before they go back to where the now live. With Ashley & Ty living in Appleton and Taylor living in Denver Colorado.
On Sunday we again woke up to thick fog. It was in the afternoon before the sun finally burned it off. With it being a day of rest I did just that. I watched the Vikings beat the Packers 27 to 25. Jimmy Carter our 39th president died today at the age of 100, he was an honest and decent man. The only honest president we had in my time of 92 years.
-Helmuth Krause
