A couple years ago, I was selling my DriverWorks Ink-published books at a craft show in Swift Current when a man walked by and yelled at me: “When are you doing another Fun On The Farm book? I really enjoy those!”
Fast forward almost three years, in the midst
of a global pandemic, and here it is. Bring on the laughter!
Fun On The Farm 3: True Tales of Farm Life adds another 32 short stories and six poems
to those of the first two volumes of the series, with more amusing antics,
accidents, surprises, and laughs about growing up, living, or working on
Western Canadian farms. Twenty writers, including me, have contributed to this
volume.
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| Author /editor/ publisher Deana J. Driver with Fun On The Farm 3 |
The stories include how I learned to drive a
car in a grain field in Alberta at age 12, played in a culvert on our farm as a
kid, and watched high school friends of my husband go a little goofy during our
rural wedding a few decades ago. My sister Leanne Pacholok and brother Alan Pacholok
talk about their adventures too, including Leanne’s Poohsticks games through
that same culvert, and Alan’s numerous antics and accidents that ended with minimal
damage to him, but not to our mom’s prized plate from Poland.
Shellbrook author Laurie Lynn Muirhead shares
stories of how her brother showed off his “flying” skills and how she nurtured
a runt piglet to its full size. Saskatoon writer Marilyn Frey contributed five
stories to Fun On The Farm 3, telling of riding a pig, Sunday ball
games, crop circles, and more. Brad Hauber of Lloydminster recalls picking
rocks, winter sports, and the benefits of having younger brothers. The contributing writers include three authors whose work I’ve published: Mary
Harelkin Bishop has stories of garden gumbo and a friend’s rocky awakening,
Janice Howden explains her dad’s “crash” nickname, and Bryce Burnett’s poetry
gives glimpses of farm life. Other contributors are Cheryl Crashley, Elias
Entz, Jean Fahlman, Keith Foster, Becky Gamble, Ron Krenn, Theodore
Mikolayenko, Karen Ollinger and Eldon McDougald, Rev. Dr. Joyce Sasse, and Jean
Tiefenbach.
This is the final book in the Fun On The
Farm series celebrating the sense of humour that Western Canadian farmers often
utilize to get through the hard times and cherish the good times.
Fun
on the Farm 3 books are available
at www.driverworks.ca, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Indigo, Chapters, Coles, Handmade
Saskatchewan gift shops in Regina and Saskatoon, SaskBooks, Amazon, and other select stores.
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| Signed copies of Fun On The Farm, Fun On The Farm Too, and Fun On The Farm 3 are available at a Book Bundle sale price from www.driverworks.ca/shop.html |
