Author: D.C. Butterfield

You Do The Math!

I’ve read that Bobby Orr waited 35 years after his final NHL game to write a hockey book! So, that game was in 1978. You do the math! hockey changes – Cherry hasn’t. He’s still living in a corner (No pun intended!) back in the 70’s Boston/Orr era. Don...

In A Perfect World!

Rogue Row As I was recently looking back on the winter of my 68th (Sigh!) year I was feeling a tad down when my old buddy Jack O’Lantern came by. Lights up a room the minute he steps in. Kinda reminds me of the days with Bill and Old...

Jammed!

Jammed – positioned tightly between bodies or surfaces so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible. Jammed – caught between a rock and a hard place. I’ve written columns like that …! Taberduker! But, you won’t get “jammed” if’n you know that “in it’s class” means basically...

Just Scratching The Surface

Oftentimes, whatever one is doing, one is just scratching the surface. And, often just after that surface is scratched, someone will come along to “clarify”! Example: Someone said they’d be soon pushing towards their “threescore years and ten” when it was pointed out that according to Psalm 90:10 they...

You Got That Right!

By: D.C. Butterfield   I once knew a feller who wore “stamper boots” and kept a street-fighters “scrapbook” whose favorite saying was, “You got that happy right big guy!” One time up at camp he sagely remarked that, “The bear sausage was barely grizzled and grizzly!” ‘Pon my soul!...

Keep Your Shirt On!

By: D.C. Butterfield A common expression when you want someone to calm down and rationalize is, “Keep your shirt on!”. Often used by me back in the days of dances at Riley Brook, Arthurette, Silver Slipper, Johnville and/or Glassville after an invitation to “C’mon outside!” over some local lassie....

The Real Deal!

Really, I’m sometimes kidded about going into Coffee-Coffee with my decrepit work clothes on. [Better on than off …!]  Well, they’re the proverbial “real deal”! So’s ‘She’ who proclaimed that it would be much easier to peel pulp with a “spud” if’n the tree was limbed and topped while...

Beware Of Imitations!

Keep in mind, that we must always beware of imitations. Kind of like comparing the Ricardian theory of rent (David Ricardo 1772-1823), also called the “economic rent” model, to agriculture’s modern “ecofallow system”. Never mind if’n you don’t “get it”! Like, there are some 800,000 “apps” one can download,...

You Fail Only If …

Rogue Row It is true – you fail only if …! Well, I didn’t really realize that! Like everyone, I have moments (Hours! Days! Weeks!) when I feel – low, blue, ragged-edged, tread worn down to the wear-bars, whatever! Such was such once! However, there on the front page...

Loaf Of Bread

It’d been hard n’ heavy sledding Out in the “oil patch” Days that sometimes seemed like weeks When even “upsides” had a “catch”, His job was flying bush-plane Between the many sites Equipment, goods, and personnel A lot of sleepless nights, Stormy weather, schedules And unforeseen delays Hiccups to...