River Ives

~Rolla Boys Randy, Victor and "Old and Ridiculous" in Steamboat Springs, Colorado 

Once the Huckberry folks see this, they'll probably want to do a feature article on the 3 guys in the picture. But who cold blame them: those are 3 pretty darn sexy old dudes, if I say so myself! Then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For now, we should just agree that there are 3 late middle aged gentlemen standing on a bridge that spans across a river the author can't remember the name of. Pooney comes to mind, but then again, it might be the Jack's Fork or the Burl Ives. Now that I think about it, I'm not aware that Burl ever had a River named after him. "The Burl Ives River" has a nice ring to it: a very nice ring indeed. If any of the Rolla Boys runs completely out of things to do, I'm going to suggest he work on getting a River named after our late friend Burl. I know he had that one Christmas special, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, and that's certainly nothing to sneeze at, as he played a major role. But a river would be much more fitting for the only man I can think of who was ever named Burl. I wonder if Burl had a brother named Hunk or Large? I'll have to track down Kleitus and ask if he'd be willing to do some research on that and get back with us. I hate to keep readers in a lurch when it comes to important issues. Lurch: now that would have been a good name for one of the Ives brothers...Lurch Ives. Upon further consideration, Bill might have been a better choice.

I'll keep you posted should I hear back from Klietus.