Tomorrow we'll be leaving for Canada - finally! We're wrapping things up around here, enjoying the summery warm weather, eating all the food from our fridge and making last minute shopping trips. Neil just barbequed our lunch and now I'm so stuffed I need to take a break on the couch. What better way to digest than with my laptop in front of me?
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Here's Lily yesterday, asking me a million times if she could put this, this, or that into her carry-on. Tears have been shed over the fact that I wouldn't buy another plane ticket so Rosalie the unicorn could come on the trip.
Finn decided he will ride to Canada on his stick horse.
I checked the weather in Calgary and let's just say, there is room for improvement. :) So for now, we're enjoying summer for one more day. (All of us except for Neil who has been hit hard by allergies since he came back from Japan. We're hoping he will leave them behind.)
Do you want to come over and help me fit this into our suitcases? I bought most of it this morning after we realized we will see a lot of people and stay at a lot of places. Maybe if I eat half I can fit the rest?
And, you will never believe what happened on Thursday night. I'm still recovering from the shock. The big bad B-word has been rehabilitated. Seriously. Look, here:
B.O.N.A.N.Z.A.
After the kids were in bed we sat on the couch and Neil looked through the blog and watched that Sting video. Maybe it was Sting saying that Bonanza is "everybody's favourite", Stings great voice, or the Bonanza footage in that clip (unlikely), but he, MY Neil!, said he wanted to watch that episode with James Coburn.
I about fell off the couch.
In the Sting vid, the sequences where Adam is wearing the red shirt and chaps (*swoon*) are taken from a 1961 episode called "The Dark Gate." James Coburn plays Adam's best friend, Ross. Coburn and Roberts work very well together on screen (Coburn started his long career as Pernell Roberts' buddy in the 1959 western "Ride Lonesome" starring Randolph Scott, and you're welcome to borrow the DVD from me ☺), but don't get used to Ross. This is the first (and the last) time you'll see him, even though Adam allegedly has been hanging out with him constantly for the past 15 years. Funny how we never ran into him or heard of him before! But of course, this is Bonanza.
Anyway, back to Thursday night. I couldn't believe my ears!
So, I put in the DVD, and soon Neil and I were cuddled up on the couch, sharing a beer and watching Ross whats-his-name slowly succumb to schizophrenia, turning from best friend and loving husband into criminal, murderer, wife-beater and eventually wife-beater-to-deather. And, of course, because where would be the tragedy otherwise, the man who has to put an end to this madness and shoot Ross is none other than his best friend, Adam. In short: it's just the kind of uplifting, romantic story you want to watch right before going to bed, in the dark, with your husband who, come to think of it, has been acting rather strange lately too, especially tonight.
But, I could hardly pay attention anyway, because I kept wondering what on earth this was all about!? MY Neil, WANTING to watch THIS? I concluded there are three possible answers:
1) Sting has something to do with it. If STING says it's cool, it might deserve a closer look. (um, maaaaybeee.)
2) Neil does kinda realize he'll be stuck with me for the rest of his life, and if this is what I like, then he'll suffer through it somehow, because for some crazy reason he still ♥ me. (would be my preferred option, but it's most likely number)
3) He was afraid if he went to bed early to sleep off his cold/allergies/jet lag like he had done the previous nights he would wake up to yet another Bonanza blog post.
Which, of course, he didn't. Not the next morning anyway. ☺
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P.S. And by the way, in case you need something to tide you over until my return to the bloggersphere, A LOT of episodes have reappeared on youtube. Just sayin'.
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P.P.S. Lily wants me to post this, as it is her favourite clip. She is a water rat and wants to watch this numerous times a day. She is especially taken with the ending, where Hoss wakes up Joe. It's given her some great ideas and I wouldn't be surprised if she snuck in our room with a cup of water one morning.
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Take care, everyone, and we can't wait to see our family and friends in Canada!
Claudia, Neil, Finn and Lily
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