MASH Forever!

In honor of the start of the hunting season, which I am told coincides with my birthday, here are some classic quotes about guns from Jerry's and my all-time favorite TV show, MASH:

Hawkeye: I will not carry a gun, Frank. When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns. I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun.

Col. Potter: Where's your gun? Hawkeye: Sulking under my cot. We're not at speaking terms. Col. Potter: Go kiss it and make up. You're taking it with you. Hawkeye: Colonel, if I touch that gun, I'll trigger another argument. Col. Potter: Pierce, You're taking your sidearm. Hawkeye: [Holding up each arm in turn] Correct, I'm taking along my right side arm and my left side arm.

[both drunk, under fire, in a foxhole] Col. Potter: I said fire that weapon. Hawkeye: All right. [to the gun] Hawkeye: You're fired. [to Potter] Hawkeye: I did it as gently as I could. Col. Potter: That was an order, Pierce. Hawkeye: [Snapping his fingers] Oh waiter, would you take this man's order, please?

Margaret: Who the hell are you supposed to be? Charles: This is the latest in hunting attire from Ambercrombie & Fitch. Margaret: Well, you look like an overgrown bagpipe.

And a couple of others in honor of Jerry who made me a delicious meal for my birthday yesterday as well brought home a yummy ice-cream cake and pretty flowers! (these are just a couple of our favorite quotes, I wish I could find some of the others we love):

Father Mulcahy: "Now I lay me down to sleep, a bag of peanuts at my feet. If I should die before I wake, give them to my brother Jake."

[a chopper is carrying Lt. Col. Blake's desk away] Hawkeye: Pardon me, Henry, isn't that your desk? Henry Blake: Yeah, that's my genuine antique desk. Trapper: Sending it out to be waxed? Henry Blake: I'm not sure what it's doing up there. Just keeps going up... up... up... Hawkeye: To a far, far better place, I'm sure.

[Klinger goes hang-gliding past in a housecoat and slippers] Hawkeye: Did you see that? Nurse: What? Hawkeye: A big red bird with fuzzy pink feet. Trapper: Hawkeye, did you see that? Hawkeye: What did you see? Trapper: A big red bird with fuzzy pink feet. Hawkeye: [to the nurse] See?

AND THE GREATEST QUOTE OF ALL...Fr. Mulcahy: "Friends, let me tell you something, however compulsory it may be. There's no film. I'm live. Now back to where we were when you last heard from me. It was with Leviticus on the 10th I believe. Drink thee not nor thee thou sons, lest ye die. Nor congregate at the corner tabernacle. I'd like to take a short sabbatical. Or a cup of coffee. Or I wonder is there a doctor in the tent?"

The View From Our Backyard...

...is typically very nice. People comment on how pretty it is with the trees, the bench, the bird feeders, and the stone pavers that lead back to the woods and the end of our property (just to the right of the big tree and out of the view of this picture). The previous owners also added woodchips to the ground, making it a picturesque little area. We have to admit that it is one of the things that sold us on buying this place and hopefully will be a selling appeal for someone else when we eventually get around to selling it. Yesterday, on a beautiful fall day, with the fall colors peaking and the leaves still on the trees, the backyard looked like this:

Then the winds came through fiercly last night, blowing all the colored leaves and peices of branch into the windows of our bedroom (this is the view from our bedroom and kitchen as well). It howled so loudly that we were awoken immediately. We have always had a fear that the top of the big tree (to the right) would snap off and land on our house in a bad storm. The trunk leans forward a bit and it is a very tall and relatively thin for its height. So, last night we decided we should move out of the bedroom for just a little bit. Fortunately, the winds subsided, the same winds that caused tornados in the southern part of Indiana and Kentucky, and we felt fortunate that the only mess we had to clean up was a pile of leaves carpeting the entire lawn which we both had raked earlier last week. Here is what it looked like this morning:

As you can see, there are considerably less leaves on the trees and though you can't see it here, A LOT of leaves all over the lawn. Fortunately, we have a small backyard, as the woods takes up most of it, but we have two large side yards and a medium front yard to rake as well. This, to me, signals the end of a beautiful fall and the beginning of the dreary winter days ahead. We don't get as much snow here as we did with the winters we experienced in Michigan, and we get more sunshine, but as long as its cold, it might as well be snowing. At least it makes the backyard look pretty.