I've been watching my "Starsky & Hutch" DVDs the last few nights. Christmas night I watched "Plague" which features Hutch dying from some mysterious ailment which can only be cured by finding a hitman on the lam who happens to carry antibodies for the illness. Alex Rocco plays the hitman and does a great job.
Hutch also does a great job as someone dying with the plague. I love to watch medical stuff from the '70s because it's so old school -- Hutch was in an oxygen tent. I remarked to hubby that you never see oxygen tents anymore and hubby replied it's because they killed everyone. Could be a good reason for doing away with them.
Tonight I am happily tucked up in bed watching "Shootout," the episode where Starsky gets shot while he and Hutch are dining in an Italian restaurant. That one was indelibly printed on my brain when I first saw it as a kid. Best S&H ep ever.
Hubby and I were incredibly lazy today. We didn't even leave the house. We did, however, go outside to fix a minor crisis with one of our gutter downspouts. The snow melting off the roof drained down, but then froze so the downspout is frozen solid at the bottom. The horizontal drain was also frozen, so the water was leaking out higher up at one of the joints because there was nowhere else for it to go, and thus draining down against the foundation of the house, which is a bad thing, as any homeowner can tell you.
Hubby and I took off the drain and got some of the downspout unplugged, at least enough that water was draining out again. Then we retrieved the downspout extension and set that up on a rock under the downspout so the water would flow onto a shrub instead of down into the foundation. We usually get it flowing out into the grass, but the horizontal spout is plugged with ice so we can't use that again until things thaw a little bit. We need a new one anyway; this one is pretty banged up. Maybe that will convince us to leave the house tomorrow.
Could there be better blog material than fixing gutter downspouts? No indeed. 
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Merry Christmas, Jeanie!! 
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