Fact or Fiction - Bob Hanson
In reading about Labor and Delivery services by Mayo Clinic at Owatonna ending November 17, 2025, I feel badly. I wonder if the possibility of a Midwife on the staff could help the situation. With about 400 births in Owatonna per year currently, there must be a better solution than ending the...
When Genie and I replaced our land line phones with cellphones, we kept our phone numbers. This has resulted in some very interesting scam calls. For example: My phone rings, I answer, the caller identified himself as with a company that will help me because his company has found out there is a...
Continued from 10-16-25.
We checked into the Chicken Therapy Cabin about 3 p.m. Sunday, September 28, 2025. (Our sixty-second wedding anniversary, staying three nights.)
The therapy cabin is located on the outskirts of Albert Lea. The main feature is 10 chickens to entertain you from...
On September 28, 1963 at Lion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake, Iowa, Him and her got married. She just finished nursing school at Naeve Hospital school of nursing in Albert Lea Minnesota and was a registered nurse. He was employed by the Kahler Corporation in Rochester, Minnesota just recently...
Monday evening, September 22, 2025 was the yearly soup and dessert supper at Central Freeborn Lutheran Church rural Albert Lea. (Being of the old school, an octodenarian, I refer to the event as “Soup and Pie.”)
Once again the soup and dessert committee of Gary Goette, Cathay Legried, Ole...
As one grows older on this great planet Earth, you experience many things in your walk of life. Some things are a very pleasant experience and some not so pleasant. Such has been the experience of Genie and mine this past week.
On the pleasant side, the heading, “These kids are getting...
On Thursday Evening September 11, 2025 Genie and I attended the Clarks Grove area Heritage Society meeting in the Clarks Grove Museum in Clarks Grove, Minnesota.
The program was Sequoia Landscaping of Ellendale, a locally owned business with Angela and Alex Bell the founders of the business...
I was moaning and groaning about how bad the Twins were playing. Genie told me, “Cheer up, the Twins could be playing worse.” So I did and sure enough the Twins did play worse. The Twins lost four straight to the White Sox who are in last place!!
Genie and I have been sitting in our lawn...
A reminder of the annual soup and dessert supper held at Central Freeborn Lutheran Church Monday, September 22, 2025 from 4-7 p.m. The proceeds will benefit food for backpacks to help childhood hunger in Albert Lea and Life Center of Freeborn County.
We are planning a crowd as both...
What time of the year is it? It’s Twins Time!! The Twins most certainly didn’t get off to a good start. I don’t expect them to win the pennant, but I do expect them to play good baseball the entire season. No collapse at the end of the season like last year.
I'm in a confused state regarding...