We'll Miss You, Liver Lips

We had some heavy rain again today, and it was pretty rough at times, a downpour that just felt like something out of the tropics.  Not pleasant to drive in at all - I was home for most of the day, definitely under the weather now.  Coughing, drainage and so on.  I was having a bit of a Herbie Marathon, watching "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo" and "Herbie Goes Bananas."  It's a tragic story, really, and back then writers weren't overly concerned about things like canon.  They just wanted to make another Herbie movie, so Jim Douglas apparently either got a divorce since the first movie, or he's in Paris, which evidently gives you free license to ignore any marital commitments.  Regardless, they don't explain, and just like that there's one character gone.  But worse is the fate of Herbie's love interest, a cute little car named Giselle.  Apparently that car died.  Yeah, it sounds like the reason she's not in any more movies is because she didn't make a turn fast enough and crashed so bad that she was destroyed.  Yikes.  Can you imagine what that was like for Herbie?  I'm sure there have to be car therapists out there to help these vehicles handle the trauma.  If you ignore all this, you can enjoy the movies for what they are:  harmless fun.  I'm intending to finish this Herbie-thon though - the next thing is actually watching for the first time the television show.  It's available online somewhere, just five episodes of Jim Douglas and Herbie together for a few hours.  And then there are two more movies, one with Bruce Campbell and then of course the one from 2006.  The Herbie-thon continues!

Moving on, today was a good day for Maddie at school.  Here's her vivid description of today's events:

Maddie: "I went interning and all with Mrs. Roper at first and then like I was doing a low relief thing for ceramics.  Uh... learned about 'Merica in US History.  (laugher)  Uh... jumped.  (long pause)  Yeah."

"Low Relief Thing for Ceramics."

Tonight we went over to taekwondo, and I stayed in the car while Maddie did some more aerials and kicked people.  She's really enjoying that class.  We drove home later, and because we're going on this Disney Cruise, we watched "Ant-Man" tonight, the first of the three movies.  Some of these characters feature prominently in the Marvel-themed dinner onboard the ship.  Pretty cool.

We also watched some of the last showings of the Country Bear Jamboree.  I guess the last time we saw this show was in 2019, so it's been a few years.  The pandemic saw to it that we didn't go back right away. But we were watching a livestream or two of it, and it was heartwarming to see so many enthusiastic fans also singing along with the music and even saying all the words.  These are my kind of people.  Such nostalgia and a bittersweet moment.  

Fortunately the bears are not going away, although Liver Lips McGraw is changing his name to Romeo McGrowl.  Not sure about that one, as we're pretty happy with the name Liver Lips, but we'll reserve judgement until we see the new show, as we're at least going to keep the bears for a while longer, and not take them out of the park completely.  I remember having a Country Bear Jamboree lunchbox when I was younger, and of course I've probably seen that show dozens of times.  We make a point of seeing each visit to the Magic Kingdom, no joke!

 

So I've been sick, so we did go to bed early.  Maddie's taekwondo instructor is also sick so there's no Team Edge tomorrow.  We're sleeping in, all of us.  We read tonight, and we said our prayers.  Hopefully tomorrow is going to be a better day!