Week of 2/10/25

Monday February 10th started out this week a bit colder that normal with a low of 3 and a high of 28, but it was sunny so it was a pleasant day. I weeded out some weed trees this morning until 11 and had an early lunch. I then went to Richland Center where I had a radio interview with W.R.C.O. for their morning show in about 2 weeks.

Tuesday again was a pleasant day, sunny but with a cold wind. So I cracked walnuts till noon to get done with the last of them. In the afternoon I went out to the woods as I was working on the Southwest side of the hill with the sun shining in, it was quite nice.

Wednesday was a cloudy day with a light snow starting at 8 in the morning. After feeding the cows on the ridge I took the loader tractor up to Teds to fix as one of the back forks on the bale lift got bent. I stayed in and did some reading for the rest of the day. I also made telephone calls to a number of book stores.

Thursday morning was colder but sunny with a low of -4, which was after yesterdays 3 inches of snow. I cleaned up the snow this morning. Ruth was baking some pies for a benefit that was to take place on Saturday, Feb. 15th. In the afternoon I delivered the pies to the person in charge. I also delivered a case of maple syrup to the Highland Ambulance benefit that would be on Sunday, Feb. 16th; as well as some more maple syrup and a signed book to another benefit.

Friday came in even colder with a low of -11. The coldest morning so far this winter. I went to Boscobel to get our taxes done. It was noon when we got back to Muscoda so we had lunch at Vicki’s Cozy Cafe. The portions were huge and we could only eat about half so we took the rest back home and had supper with that. we stopped at the bank after lunch as we had some business to do there.

Saturday was a lot warmer with a low of 21 and a high of 29 but snowy with another 2 inches after the 4 inches we got the night before. Spent a good part of Saturday moving snow. The benefit that Ruth had baked the pies for went really well. The apple pie went for 250 dollars and the blueberry pie sold for 300 dollars. The cherry pie was the last one left, there was a bidding war for that one. When it was over the winner paid a whopping $800.

Sunday it was cloudy and windy in the morning and all the cows were down off of the ridge so I got them all in the feed yard and locked them in as I want to cut out a couple thin ones and 3 calves. I went to the Highland ambulance benefit for dinner; they had a big crowd. That ends this week on February 16th.

-Helmuth Krause