Fact or Fiction - Bob Hanson
It's that time of year known as Deer hunting fever. It affects not only the hunter but also the deer.
Two of my better stories of how it affected deer are:
1. The big Buck following a Doe and he didn't see the School Bus until his antler hit and held the door into the school bus...
A deer hunting we did go, in snow and cold weather.
As Genie and I travel north, we remember previous trips north. One was driving to get there in a blizzard along highway 2 near Walker.
Our first stop was for lunch at McDonald’s in Garrison, Minn. (It is the smallest town by...
A big shout out to Lyla Vierus the new acolyte at central Freeborn Lutheran Church. (Can you picture yourself at age 12 being an acolyte in your church??)
We had 114 trick-or-treaters at our house. This was a lot fewer than we had planned for as it rained hard enough to get very wet and...
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...