Reading Time: 4 minutes The first day, Dale found ways to cope with the frustration. He watched from his truck, driving out to the field and back. He paced the yard, if hopping around the yard on crutches could be called pacing. He phoned his son, texted his father. But by 10 a.m. on Day 2, Dale hit the […] Read more
Hanson Acres: When tomorrow comes…
Maybe someone will lose those stupid signs anyway
Hanson Acres: Ouch!!!… Now the Hansons really need help
The question is, is Elaine’s idea for finding that help as harebrained as one person in particular seems to think?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Thanks, Elaine,” Donna said, watching her daughter-in-law clear the supper table while Elaine’s son Connor wandered off to play and the baby napped in the corner. “You two need all the help you can get,” Elaine laughed, looking at Donna’s casted foot resting on a flowered pillow. Dale hadn’t wanted to say, “I told you […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Where is this flight heading?
When the tourist brochure arrived, it looked so innocent
Reading Time: 5 minutes You’re really sure this is a good idea?” Dale asked his wife. “Dale, I’ve had the tickets since December,” Donna said. Then her phone beeped and she looked down at the screen in her hand while she kept talking. “It’s a little late to go changing my mind now. I’d let the other women down. […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Please answer the phone!
By the morning of the third day, Dale Hanson was worried
Reading Time: 4 minutes “I don’t know why he’s not answering his phone,” Dale said to his wife Donna. “Remember the last time you got all worked up about Ed not answering the phone?” Donna said, looking up from her magazine. “He was at a fish fry in the trailer court.” The first year his father had packed up […] Read more
Hanson Acres: It’s a rink out there
When Dale takes grandson Connor to the arena, all sorts of things begin to slip
Reading Time: 5 minutes Dale Hanson and his son Jeff were out in the shop, trying to fix the electric tarp on their semi trailer. They’d hoped it was just a bad switch, but by mid-morning they’d figured out that the electric motor was seized. They were going to have to go to Regina for a new one before […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Slipping into the dealership
It’s business — big business — but they’re off to a bumpy start
Reading Time: 5 minutes Damn idiot ought to get a ticket. Driving like that,” Dale shouted, hitting the brakes. The truck slid a little on the slippery highway, but Dale held the wheel and slowed to 80 without coming too close to the back of the green Chevy Malibu in front of them. Dale waited impatiently for his chance […] Read more
Hanson Acres: The hard decision
Elaine was furious. “I know exactly what you’re doing.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes It was nearly midnight when Elaine and the baby got home. She carried the sleeping little girl in from the car. It had been a long day for one-year-old Jenny. Four and a half hours each way to Saskatoon and back, and a long afternoon entertaining her grandmother while Elaine went to a meeting. Elaine […] Read more
Hanson Acres: Where’d that combine come from?
“He must have seen this coming,” Jeff said. Dale just shook his head
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jeff was looking at his laptop screen at the kitchen table when his father, Dale, came in the back door. “There’s coffee on,” Jeff said, not looking up. “Elaine’s at a meeting in the city, but she left some cookies on the cupboard.” “I’d better pass on the cookies. I just had breakfast in town […] Read more
Guess who’s coming to dinner
Brian chuckled: 'You must have missed a meeting, Dale'
Reading Time: 5 minutes Last year the Hansons had invited way too many relatives to Thanksgiving dinner. The immediate family had snuck out to the shop to eat pie standing up and get away from the chaos. This year they promised: “just us.” So Dale was confused when he ran into Brian Miller at Tim Hortons. After the usual […] Read more
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