Week of 2/3/25

This week Monday the weather started out cloudy and gray; a gloomy day. It felt like it could either rain or snow but none ever reached the ground. After chores were done I went to the woods to get rid of the weed trees to let the walnut and maple trees fill in. I worked till noon on that job then quit as these old 92-year-old legs can only take a half day on these steep hills.

On Tuesday February 4th it turned cold again with a low of 13 and only getting up to 21 degrees; even with the bright sunshine and little wind. I again started killing off the weed trees. After noon my daughter Tina and her husband Bill came up to visit for a while. After that I made some phone calls to some book stores. I am getting very good replies back. At least half of the stores I have called said they will take the book.

Wednesday started out cool, cloudy, and windy. So I decided to stay out of the woods and cracked walnuts. I also made some more phone calls to book stores. I also called the radio station in Richland Center to see if I could get on their morning show to talk about the book and why I wrote it. I have a meeting with Phil Nee on February 10th at 1 o-clock Monday. Then in the afternoon I took Ruth to the chiropractor in Mineral Point as her back is giving her trouble. On the way back we stopped at the Dodge Point Radio Station and left a book there for Kurt the manager to read it and maybe to an interview with me. That is something none of the newspapers would even consider as they seem to believe that us common people should not have a voice that everything should first go through them and be censored before us dummies can get the news.

Thursday was a very cloudy day with some freezing rain last night, making the ground very slipper this morning. So I decided to stay in and cracked walnuts this morning. By afternoon the ice was gone as the temperature climbed to 36 from the morning low of 18. In the afternoon I delivered 4 cases of maple syrup and 6 books to Rural Route One in Monfort Wisconsin. When I got back home I went to the woods and worked a couple of hours.

Friday again was a cloudy day this morning. At breakfast we had 2 deer standing over the hill above the house almost looking into the house: a pretty sight. I took some hay to the cows on the ridge this morning. I then took Ruth to the chiropractor in Mineral Point for a treatment. On the way back I dropped some books off for Mc Neals store in Dodgeville. In the afternoon I worked some more in the woods.

Saturday was again a cloudy day. I worked in the woods in the morning and in the afternoon I kind of took it easy and took a nap and watched some western movies on T.V. As we were getting some light snow, enough to track a cat.

Sunday morning was a bit colder starting out at 10 degrees. It was a day of rest so I stayed in and watched Meet the Press and Market to Market on T.V. this morning. We ate a big dinner and then I took a nice long nap. We will watch the Super Bowl this evening.

-Helmuth Krause