Week of 11/10/24

The week started out sunny but a fair amount cooler then what most of this fall has been. That all changed by Tuesday the rest of the week it stayed cloudy with some light rain Wednesday evening and heavy rain Thursday morning before daylight. Which left the feeding lot full of calves a total mess, as well as the field where I feed the cows.

On Friday I got around to cleaning out the feed lot and giving the calves plenty of dry bedding. Which is a good thing because Ted worked the calves on Saturday vaccinating and tagging them.

Most of the mornings this week after chores I planted more walnuts. I got around 800 in the ground now. I only work till noon doing that as that is all this 92-year-old body can take anymore.

I spent a good but of time just sitting and watching the chipmunks and squirrels play. So far, I haven’t seen the squirrels dig up any of the nuts I had planted, as there are so many hickory nuts and other walnuts laying on the ground that they haven’t even started to work at that yet. Both the turkey and the deer are working the harvested corn and soybean fields. The turkeys do it in the daytime then the deer do the evening and night shifts.

Ruth got some nice orders for Thanksgiving pies. So now she will get to use her new stove for them, as McNeal Appliance brought it out Wednesday.

On Saturday I had a book signing at the Aspen Ridge Home and Garden Center in Mineral Point Wisconsin. We did real well there just about everyone who looked at the book bought one.

On Sunday afternoon I went to Oakwood Apple Orchard as Richland Center where we had left quite a bunch of books at the start of the season in August. The books were all sold out and had been for some time. We will make sure to leave more there next year.

-Helmuth Krause