By MYRNA FAUSKA
Since last Wednesday evening’s storms, a lot of hay has been harvested and the June harvest is still in full swing. It looks like Wisconsin’s dairy herd and other alfalfa-eating animals will have good fodder next winter. I miss those days when I was out in the field, shooting hay bales into the wagon for the guys to haul to the barn.
If you missed this column last week, it was because I was with my cousin Louise Kaus in Barron, Wis., where I joined her family celebrating the graduation of her youngest grandson in Eagan, Minn., on Saturday.
After returning home last week, on Wednesday I joined 10 other Kendall Public Library book club members for a tour of the Wonewoc Public Library, the Hatch Public Library in Mauston and the New Lisbon Public Library, with lunch at the China Buffet in Mauston.
On Thursday afternoon, I met with Christopher Young and his daughters, Chloe, Lily, Truth and Felicity, for a trip to Richland Center to go roller skating. The next day, I was with the family as the girls enjoyed swimming in Hillsboro Lake. On Saturday it was time to take the girls home to their mother, so we drove to Elgin, Ill., where they were met by their maternal grandfather and exchanged them for their brother August, who will spend several weeks here in rural Hillsboro with his father. On Father’s Day, August and I treated Christopher to lunch at The Summit Restaurant with dessert at McDonald’s in Reedsburg, where Christopher’s oldest son Kit works.
Enough about me. Up the valley last Thursday, Arlene Garvens got together with her friends from the KTY Jun Quilt Guild for a shop hop and visited two places in Beaver Dam and one each in Ripon, Oakfield and Mauston. She reported that all were excellent shops and well worth the trip.
At the west end of the neighborhood, Chip and Mary Marty and family spent the weekend camping at West Salem, where Brett and his baseball team participated in a tournament.
Last but certainly not least, we come to Wednesday, when Kendall Public Library Director Lynette Vlasak and Sally Dana, along with Assistant Director Charisa Finn, led the library tour I wrote about up above. On Friday, Lynette and Sally were in Janesville to attend the memorial service for Jane Darcey, a former coworker of Lynette’s. On Saturday, Lisa Goostree of Baraboo, Wis., met Lynette and Sally at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Kendall for the spring banquet, and afterward the three gals went to Pony Express Supper Club for some ice cream to top off the day.
Sometimes it seems that God has forgotten us or isn’t paying attention to our needs, like during last Wednesday’s storms, in which several trees went down or were damaged, but the next day the sun came out and the new corn and soybean fields were marching in their rows up and down and around the hills while the farmers were busily mowing alfalfa, and then spending the rest of the week harvesting it. God is always in control, even when don’t think He is, and we can rejoice and thank and praise Him for His loving care for us.