62nd Annual Musky Festival

62nd Annual Musky Festival

This week, in Hayward, WI, we are celebrating our 62nd Musky Festival. If you haven’t experienced one you owe it to yourself to come.

The fun starts on Thursday, the 23rd, with downtown sidewalk sales, the crowning of the Musky Queen, and the wonderful Carnival opens.

Friday starts the hughest Arts & Crafts Show which includes food, refreshments, and live entertainment. There are activities for the kids throughout the day. From 8 PM to Midnight the band RHINO will be playing for the street dance. They perform modern rock, classic pop and popular tunes.

More info tomorrow. But for the full details go to: www.muskyfestival.com .

My favorite are the Hayward Lions Club brats and the fried cheese curd. I hope to see you there!

Tom Berlage, Area North Realty, Hayward, WI
800-344-2300

TURTLE TIME

This time of year, up here in Hayward, female turtles are out laying their eggs.  It is not uncommon to see painted and snapping turtles, on the shoulders of our rural roads, laying their eggs.  Often times I will see one of the ladies crossing the road and I am careful to avoid smashing her.  I have also been known to stop my car and help one of these creatures cross the road, but only the painted ladies.  Snapping turtles I leave alone.  Their jaws are very powerful and a couple of years ago one snapped a broom stick I was using to prod her out of my wife's herb garden.

Here is a picture of a recent snapper I found crossing Moose Lake Road near our organic farm:

Isn't she beautiful?  "With a face only a mother could love."  LOL!



So if you encounter one of our reptilian ladies crossing a road here in northwestern WI please be careful not to run her over so that she may safely lay her eggs.  After all, as ugly as these snappers are, they are still a part of our glorious northwoods!
Be well and have a great weekend!
Tom Berlage, Area North Realty, Hayward, WI