Archive for the ‘Conversations’ Category

Posted on October 14, 2008 - by Hubba

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

I almost don’t want to say this, because I might jinx myself. After all, the year is not over yet.

But I will say it anyway. I haven’t fought a single fire this year.

Sometime when you have a free week, if you would like, you can go through the ESN archives. If you pay attention to the ESN’s from the past four summers, you will see that we had several fires in the area. As a (more…)

6 Comments

Posted on September 30, 2008 - by Hubba

Bohemian Rhapsody

This post was inspired by my buddy Jim Thorp over at the Yield & Overcome website (http://werdfu.blogspot.com).  He recently did a little piece on chance encounters in faraway places.

Hopefully at some point in this little story, you will see the mental connection…

There are about five predominant bloodlines in South Dakota; Native, Bohemian, Norwegian, German and Irish.  There are smatterings of a few other bloodlines (more…)

6 Comments

Posted on September 27, 2008 - by Hubba

Are You Ready?

Yesterday evening as I was fencing, I listened to the “Game of the Week” on a local radio station.  Their announcer goes to a selected high school football game of a school from the area and announces it.  Last night it was West River powerhouse and my alma mater St. Thomas More at Winner.  And for the first time in three years, St. Thomas More got beat in a regular season game.

When I was going there, they weren’t the powerhouse they are today, but we won our share, sometimes by a large margin.  It was one of these games my senior year when I got to run the ball for my first and only time. (more…)

3 Comments

Posted on September 23, 2008 - by Hubba

The ESN; Anniversaries

 

After successfully circulating a petition, the kind citizens changed the scheduled of the Elm Springs School so that classes now start at 8:00 am and finish at 2:45 pm. Monday was the first day of the new schedule, and the parents seemed to be more excited about it than the children were.

Several of the kind citizens attended the football game in Wall Friday night, where Wall defeated Kadoka.

Carolyn Anders and Pam Bachand spent the weekend in the Black Hills. On Sunday, Marvin went to Sturgis to attend Harold Bowers’ 95th birthday party.

Clyde Arneson went to New Underwood (more…)

0 Comments

Posted on September 22, 2008 - by Hubba

On Golden Pond

My girlfriend Bonnie is taking an Intro to Theater class this semester, so she has to go to four plays.  I, being the wonderful catch that I am (oh hardy harr harr) volunteered to attend as many of them with her as I could.

The closest, most convenient plays she could find were Black Hills Community Theatre productions which are being held at the Rushmore Mall in Rapid City, which I thought added a redneck element to an otherwise too-sophisticated pastime.

The first production, which we went to Saturday evening, was “On Golden Pond,” which we learned has been made into a movie starring Henry Fonda among others.  It was very good.  I actually think I like going to plays.

Bonnie often remarks that I know everyone, everywhere.  The mayor of Wall and his wife were at the play, and my insurance agent’s grandson and his wife.  During the first half of the play, I periodically would point out people I knew to Bonnie.

There were a mother and daughter sitting right in front of me.  They looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place them.  At intermission they got up and were walking past me when I decided to get up too.  I got up, forgetting all about the riser we were seated on, fell off of it and whacked into the mother, very ungracefully smashing her up against the wall.  I apologized profusely, and she said it was allright.

She walked a little ways away and then came back. “You’re a Trask, aren’t you?” she asked.  I replied that yes I was.  “Well I’m Tim Bradeen’s mom.”  Tim Bradeen was a high school buddy of my brothers Nick and Al, and I had been to their house one time as well.

Yes, so nice running into you…

Also, Happy Birthday today to my brother Nick.

0 Comments