By MYRNA FAUSKA
The past week has been a good one for working outside, whether you are a farmer, a gardener or just cleaning up the yard after the winter. Folks have been working in the fields, as is evidenced by the freshly turned soil and the farm machinery on the roads. Also, the greenhouses have been doing a good business and new blooms are showing up in planters and flowerbeds. Ah, spring, the time of new life.
The week was not a noteworthy one for this less-than-feisty Fauska, but on Sunday, Dave and Pam Strike joined me for lunch at the Pony Express Supper Club after church, which was a good start to the new week.
Tuesday was the day for the Kendall Public Library book club to meet, and three groups spread themselves in their sessions for ease of social distancing and discussed the book “Seabiscuit” by Laura Hillebrandt. We all learned more than we had ever known before about the life of that famous racehorse and his opponents and the lives of the jockeys who rode them.
Lynette Vlasak was in Mount Horeb, Wis., on Thursday, and she and her former coworkers from school had lunch at Skaal, a Norwegian restaurant, while Sally Dana held down the fort at the Kendall Public Library. On Saturday the gals went greenhouse shopping on the ridge. On Sunday they were at the fairgrounds in Viroqua, where they attended a hand bell concert sponsored by a local church.
Although the neighbors keep busy, they haven’t been out making news or having visitors lately, so there isn’t much to entertain you with. However, Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend, as is opening-day for fishing, so perhaps we will have more for you to feast your eyes on then. The Lord has blessed us with the love of parents to enhance our lives even after they’ve left us to go home to Him. The memories they leave behind are a great gift to cherish as we grow older and share with kinfolk and friends. Thank you, God, for all of your loving kindness in our lives.