Bear Paw Meanderings
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I have not shared any mail with you gentle readers for some time now. Old time readers know that my mail is usually about the same each time I get any and varies from those who are in love with me to those who hate the ground I walk on.
Yet, it is always good to stay humble so here is a sample of what the last three months have brought in. I call it the good, the bad and the ugly.
Dear Mr. Lucke, I see you hobbling down the street using a walker these days. Surely I think we will not have to read any more of your drivel in the paper as you are obviously in bad shape. And yet when I look at the paper to see that you are finally gone, there you are once again, your evil face gleaming up at me. Enough is enough. Stop writing and go enjoy your life.
Signed Mark from Malta
Dear Mark, What can I say? Old writers just keep writing, they just start smelling more and more like printer’s ink. Yes I am with walker for a time as they say but my problem is finding more hours to write in. I have two more books to finish before I put down the pen once and for all. One is a book called, 93 and Me and is a story of my driving red busses in Glacier Park. The other, and much more difficult is a story of my grandfather, Lou Lucke, a pioneer merchant in this area. Add to them my regular writings and you can see I am a busy person.
Dear Robby, You write a sports column. Who should I bet on that is going to win the Super Bowl this season. Give me the long shot so I can make lots of money.
Signed Sig from St. Regis
Dear Sig, I don’t know anything about long shots but Seattle is going to win the Super Bowl this season.
Dear Robby, Is it true that a Bear Paw rancher built his outhouse over Clear Creek so he would have a flush toilet all year long?
Signed, Mo from Mobridge
Dear Mo, Yes indeed that is true however realize that the flushing action stopped in the wintertime not to resume until the spring thaw. By the way are you named because of Mobridge or is Mobridge named for you?
Dear Mr. Lucke, You are my hero and you have always been my hero. I have my kitchen, living room and two bedrooms papered with your picture as gleaned from the pages of “The Journal”. My question is are you available for a strictly honorable relationship or are you taken?
Signed Midge from Maiden
Dear Midge from Maiden or should I say Maiden from Midge,I am taken but I do need a prep cook in my kitchen. You could start out that way and then gradually move into the living room where you could tend the fire if you worked out. If you get along with my dog and me, you then could write my words as I say them. But, why leave kith and kin for that kind of life. No, you are far better gazing at my picture from afar as they say in the movies.
Dear Mr. Lucke, In your opinion is the country going to hell in a hand basket or what?
Signed Hank from Helena,
Well Hank, that one I have not figured out for myself lately. I will say this about that. These are certainly interesting times in which we live. I used to watch sports news every morning I could just to get an edge on sports stories for my column. Now I watch the news all morning just to see what more horrible thing has happened today than happened yesterday. I don’t know where we are ending up but it seems like we are going down the west side of Logan Pass with no brakes. We know we are going to get to the bottom, just maybe more quickly than we want to. No, that sounds horrible doesn’t it? We will get through this bad patch like we have gotten through many other bad patches and will come out a stronger and more united country for it all. Believe that no matter what else you believe!
