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Posted on February 26, 2010 - by Hubba

A Beautiful Day, Funeral Notwithstanding

Today I went to the funeral of Jane Scofield, who spent the better part of her life, timewise, as a Meade County special education teacher.  In that capacity, she had a large influence on my life as one of my speech therapists.  I had no idea until today that the small smiling woman who drove a dirty hatchback (I forget what kind it was) joined the Marine Corps, served in Punjab India in the Peace Corps after that, obtained an associates degree in animal husbandry, her teaching certificate, and a masters degree in teaching.  The woman set out to experience all of the world that she could while changing it at the same time, and boy howdy, did she ever.

The funeral was well attended, but not terribly sad.  I think this was partly to do with the absence of the departed, but more (and this is not particularly respectful of the dead) because it was a nice day today.  And to a people who have been hunkered down at home with sub zero temperatures, starving cows and at times, no water, it was just enjoyable to go to town in a light jacket.  It was kind of muddy, there were puddles in places, and spring seemed to promise that it would be hear soon, it just had some things to take care of first.  The people at the funeral reception huddled in groups with coffee and sandwiches, offering good natured complaints about recent circumstances that should have caused major depression, and in general seemed to enjoy each others company and the sunshine.

I don’t think Jane Scofield minded at all.  In fact I bet she enjoyed it.

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Posted on February 19, 2010 - by Hubba

Oh Fishsticks!

Wednesday began the season of Lent, as has been noted before, when among other things Catholics are to abstain from all meat except fish on Fridays.  Back in the old days, Catholics were supposed to abstain from meat 52 Fridays a year, but somewhere in there, the rules were relaxed a little.

Which brings a Catholic to the question of what to eat on Fridays during Lent.  I don’t find abstaining from meat one day a week all that bothersome, and there are lots of tasty ways to prepare fish.  There are those people who abhor fish, and for them the whole no-meat-on-Friday probably does seem like an unbearable cross (see what I did there?) but I am not one of those people, provided there are no onions in my fish.  An onion really really onions up a fish it seems like. (more…)

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Posted on February 14, 2010 - by Hubba

With Love to My Darlin’

Bonnie Jean has been bugging me about sharing my reflections on her and relationships here on Hubba’s House.  And somehow she thought Valentine’s Day would be the perfect opportunity to do so.

Volumes have been written about women and relationships, the main point being that men don’t understand women, and further women don’t understand women either.  I am afraid I am not going to add anything meaningful to the discussion.

So with much trepidation, here we go.

The Rules for Men in Relationships- (more…)

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Posted on December 28, 2009 - by Hubba

OOh Kay…

To anyone who may still be here, I apologize for the long absence from my House.

A lot has happened since I was last here.  I moved to White Owl, SD and got engaged to the lovely Ms. Bonnie Timmons.  It was about damn time I reckon.

I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to continue doing this, but I think I do, so I may as well start today, it being the first day of the rest of my life and all that jazz.

This morning on the Rapid City Journal website there was an article about the Horseshoe Bar in Rapid City.  The Horseshoe Bar has long been the blue collar dive of choice in Rapid City, and for years it was situated on the very edge of town, in a field full of Appaloosa horses as the Journal pointed out.  But the city has slowly and surely crept toward and around it, and it appears that the Horseshoe Bar will fall victim to the next round of development.

I have only been in the Horseshoe Bar once, and the regulars gave me a most touching Fallen Hero’s welcome, which I did not at all deserve.

It went like this here-

In August of ‘05, I was conscripted as an usher at the wedding of two dear friends in Rapid City.  The afternoon before the wedding at the rehearsal, the minister went to great lengths to impress upon us the solemnity and seriousness of the occasion.  The minister unfairly characterized some of us as “godless heathens” or something, and decided that we needed a firm hand on the tiller of the ceremony, along with several extra sermons about the proper time and place for celebration.

Well, it was all too much for one of my fellow ushers, who likely wasn’t entirely comfortable with churches and such to begin with.  The Victorian manner of the minister had the opposite affect of that intended, and at the earliest opportunity, our fractious usher got just as drunk as a person could possibly get.  And then woke the day of the wedding and proceeded to get drunker at the Horseshoe Bar. (more…)

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Posted on October 9, 2009 - by Hubba

More Fall Work

After I get done writing about the “Disaster of ‘89,” and write about the “Adventure of ‘90″ I can write about the “Adventurous Disaster of ‘92.”  All of these, in case you hadn’t guessed, are stories of our ill-fated cattle drives. (more…)

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