Week of 1/5/25
This week Monday started out cloudy and cold with a low of 7 degrees. The sun then came out mid-morning and it warmed up to a nice high of 23 degrees. Perfect weather for working in the woods; so thats what I did, I cut wood. I also bedded the calf barn.
Tuesday was the same, the day started out cloudy and cold and then the sun came out and temps climbed from 4 to 25 degrees. I split wood and put it in the barn on Tuesday morning. I also cut more wood in the afternoon.
Wednesday was still cold with a low of 5 but sunny it soon got to a high of 26. I finished splitting the wood that I had cut and put it away. Ruth had a nice syrup order to send to Washington. With shipping getting so expensive sometimes on a small order the shipping costs more than the syrup and that part of our business is getting smaller.
Thursday was still cold with the temperature starting at only 6 degrees but then warming up nicely to a high of 30 under a bright sun before the clouds moved in later in the day. I took some hay to the cows on the ridge and then went to the woods where I cut 2 mule loads of wood. During the evening I got a telephone call from a company called Bookmarc Alliance wanting to promote my book and make me rich. I told them to send me their proposal in writing.
Friday was a warmer cloudy day with a few flurries flying in the morning. In he afternoon I cut some more wood. Ted, Renae, and Tayden brought down 5 cows to add to the herd here and then hauled the 41 calves from here to Ted’s farm. I will now have less chores to do. I saw a couple of deer, which are the first I have seen in a couple of weeks.
Saturday was again another cloudy day with a low of 21 and a high of 32. I cut a split more wood again today. I now have 7 full cords made with 3 more to go until I will have the barn full; about 24 cords total.
I read an article in the Dodgeville Chronicle trashing Facebook and social media for being a place where people can say anything with no points for accuracy and that it is causing the downfall of mainstream media. I believe this article was by a Mary G. However, in my experience, social media can be one of the only places where you can get the facts. This is because the mainstream media will report only what is spoon-fed to them by the authorities and press releases by the politicians. Take the case of No. 2008 C.V.00007 in Grant County Wisconsin by Judge Robert P. Van De Hey who overturned a contract in a deed and took away the use of part of the defendant's pasture land not because of what they had done but because of who they are; that being family farmers with Native American blood. The case that was brought against us I believe was because of who we are; that, because we were using a rotation pasture system that he had to open and close 3 to 4 gates over and over again to get to his residence was a total lie. Reason number 1 being that there was no residence to get to, zoning did not allow for a residence as he only had a 30ft easement, the law would have required it to be 66ft. It was a wooded parcel of land that he used for hunting. Reason 2 is that it was totally impossible to close the easement off and still have a rotation pasture if the cows were on the east side as the 2 gates would have to be closed alongside the easement to keep the cows there and when moved to the west pastures the gates on that side would have to be closed along side of the easement not across it so at least half of the easement would always be open, as the gates cannot be in two places at the same time. All of this was brought up to the newspapers and TV stations. Only one of the editors of the Fennimore Times would look into it Rob Callahan, who was then quickly replaced by Morris Newspapers. The D.A. was asked many times to bring charges of perjury against the plaintiff but she would not although she admitted that there was perjury. She is now the Granty County Judge. In my book The Heart Remembers I wrote this story and a book was sent to all of the local newspapers and T.V. stations but none of them would do a story on a local author. Books were also donated to the local libraries. The newspapers would not mention that either so I challenge those of you in mainstream media to investigate case No. 2008 C.V. 00007 and print what you find. As I see what was done as nothing short of a racial and corrupt hate crime by Grant County's so-called Justice System.
-Helmuth Krause
