I’d like to link back to the award-winning (paraphrasing) “Honey and Russian Bride” thread, but I don’t know how to search back that far.
When last we left your neighbor, Bubba, he had had a couple of failed attempts at bringing back his girl of first choice, but had finally succeeded with another girl. They had settled down to honey farming, IIRC.
I read today some blurb in the newspaper about Russian brides and American husbands, and it made me remember your neighbor. So how’s it going with them? I hope it’s a happy union and working out well?
The Search Thing, when looking for “bubba bees bride”, only yields the one thread, but I’m sure there was a sequel thread. Is that just wishful thinking?
That’s what I’m trying to remember, too. I know I read in some thread or other (and I believe it was a different thread than the original) that Bubba had succeeded on his second attempt, but I’m darned if I can find it again.
And BTW, “bubba bees bride” sounds like he’s poking bees at her to get her stung.
The second thread was started by somebody bitching about how many people had visited the first thread. It was short lived, and rather pointless. Two years or so ago, we left Bubba bitter and brideless.
He went back to Russia and kept trying one thing and then another. I may have posted that he had someone either over here or on the way over. Here’s where we are today:
Last year, Bubba was somehow involved in getting a woman of childbearing age and her “uncle” (heh, uncle!) over here. I’ve met the uncle, who is helping Bubba gather honey from the bees. He’s a rather odd acting 40-something guy from the Ukraine. He speaks a little broken English.
The woman is another matter. Bubba says she’s in Denver, for some purpose I couldn’t determine, for some length of time that I couldn’t ascertain. They are not married, but Bubba says he hopes something will work out.
It’s not clear to me if they have any sort of romantic relationship, or even an agreement that they are a couple.
We are in an extreme drought situation here, it’s only rained twice since early April. No rain, no flowers, no flowers, no honey. Bubba moans of light bills, truck payments and hives without honey.
Me, I’d be moanin’ about paying several thousand dollars to acquire a “bride” that suddenly developed pressing business in Denver, business that has kept her there for over a year, but that’s the way it goes in Bubbaworld.
Me, I’d… well, I’d never get involved in something like this in the first place, so it’s all completely hypothetical, but I think I’d be calling the INS and reporting that my “bride” had abandoned me.