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Posted on July 9, 2010 - by Hubba

Brownie the Wonder Pony

When I got home from haying yesterday afternoon, Patty Joe wanted to go for a pony ride.  I told Patty that I had to take a shower and shave, and if she was good, we’d go in an hour or so.

I got the shower took and was shaving when Bonnie called.   I hadn’t talked to her for a day or two so we had a long chat.  Two and a half hours later I went to get Patty for her pony ride.  The time lapse could be important in this story.

We couldn’t find Brownie the ancient Shetland pony anywhere.  Finally Grandma suggested that we check in the shop.  Sure enough she was in the shop.  Patty chased her out to me and I caught her.

We’ve been in and out of the shop quite a bit lately, and haven’t taken (more…)

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Posted on July 4, 2010 - by Hubba

Happy 4th Everyone!

Happy 234th birthday America.  Me and Bonnie and Patty are going to celebrate by going to church, visiting the “Upland Trask” residence, and then going to Wasta to MC/ perform in the Wasta Talent Show.

What are you doing?

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Posted on July 1, 2010 - by Hubba

And Some Days The Bear Eats You

Yesterday we lost more than we won, so at the end of the day we resolved to get up bright and early this morning, roll up our sleeves and hit ‘er again.

This morning I woke up ready to go at four o’clock in the am.  There’s a trick to getting up that early and feeling good about it.  You have to be excited about it before you go to bed.  You have to believe that wonderful things are gonna happen, and you don’t want to miss a minute of it.

So, in the correct frame of mind I fairly leapt from bed in anticipation of a wonderful day. (more…)

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Posted on June 26, 2010 - by Hubba

Summer Fun

My summer is heating up.  I got invited to be the emcee once again for the Wasta Talent Show on the Fourth of July.  Bonnie, Patty Joe and I will probably perform as well.  On the fifteenth of July, me and a horse have to be at a set of wagon wheels on highway 63 at 9:30 in the morning to participate in my buddy Blaine Nordvold’s Eagle Butte Mail Ride.  Pairs of horseback riders will relay a pouch (mochilla, perhaps?) of historical and significant documents from Ft. Pierre to Eagle Butte in a single day.  Each pair of riders rides about four miles and I am paired with the always enthusiastic Zay Norman.  At the conclusion of the Mail Ride, all of the riders will join the Eagle Butte Centennial Wagon Train to ride into downtown Eagle Butte for their centennial celebration.

The next week I am invited to participate in Johnny Holloway’s bucking horse roundup in conjunction with the Dupree Centennial Celebration.  The stalwart citizens of Dupree said multiple tornadoes be damned, our Centennial Celebration will not be postponed.  That’s the old pioneer spirit right there.

Then at some point the city of Faith is having their Centennial Celebration, which I more than likely will attend.  Throw in my dad’s big picnic and I wonder when I’m going to get any work done.

These Centennial Celebrations are fun, but after four straight years of them, I can honestly say I won’t mind when this whole country turns a hunnerd and we can put the candles away.

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Posted on June 19, 2010 - by Hubba

The Shad Olson Show

I have said before that I do not intend for HH to be a political website, and my recent political activity notwithstanding, I mean it.  I am not here to join the red state/blue state, old state/new state debate.  Really.

Because I’m about to introduce and endorse a “conservative firebrand” (his words, not mine.)  I was reminded of him yesterday when I caught the tail end of the Jim Thompson Show while moving my pickup.

For several years, Shad Olson was an evening news anchor KOTA Territory TV, the illustrious old war horse of western South Dakota television.  He had a clear midwestern voice, good diction, and was otherwise unremarkable as far as I was concerned.  I have no idea if he’s good looking or not, I’ll leave that up to the girls in the audience.  After all, KOTA TV had Alicia Garcia and Amanda Greslin, I wasn’t paying much attention to Shad Olson.

Shad became more remarkable on April 15th of this year when he appeared at a Tax Day Tea Party Rally in Rapid City.  I don’t think anybody found even that terribly remarkable except for the local media, who began remarking to anyone who would listen how terribly unprofessional Mr. Olson was for appearing in public and giving a little speech about civic duties and such.  The Rapid City Journal (more…)

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