Sunday, March 31, 2013

hungry like the wolf

I've been ordered upstairs to bed while L prepares something for tomorrow morning, so I'll just take this opportunity to say briefly how wonderful he is and how much I love him. And how...constantly amazed I am at my good fortune.

And I'll also post this, just in case Sherlock needs something else to occupy himself with in the morning, or more to the point, in case Mycroft and Anthea need help occupying him. The youtube channel belongs to someone who works at a natural history museum in Montana and this is the first in a series of videos in which they acquire a wolf that was hit by a car and prepare it for...display, presumably, but I haven't watched that far yet.

All this one has is a dead wolf, but the subsequent episodes are more graphic, so proceed with caution. Eventually, I believe, there will be flesh-eating beetles involved. You're welcome, Sherlock.


39 comments:

ro said...

Urgh. Think I'll skip the vid, I'm a bit (a lot) squeamish.

But it's Sunday here already, so I wanted to say, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!! Have a great day :-)

Greg Lestrade said...

I'm nearly done.

That vid is a brilliant idea for Sherlock in the morning.

Hope everyone will still be hungry for birthday breakfast! ;)

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY again, you fantastic fiancé.

John H. D. Watson said...

Ro - thanks! I'm pretty sure it will be a great day. :)

L - I love you, you know.

Greg Lestrade said...

Love you too. Right...only got to run up a million stairs and I'm all yours! Or you're all mine. Or we're all each other's. Something like that.

No peeking at any presents tonight!

John H. D. Watson said...

You'll have to keep me occupied somehow...

Greg Lestrade said...

carrots and hopping, right?

John H. D. Watson said...

It's like you're psychic.

Tina said...

Happy birthday, John! Hope you all have a brilliant Easter Sunday, even if it´s cold and we´ve just turned to Summer Time, too. And it´s snowing... Hope you find all the Easter eggs hidden in the graveyard :-)

Sherlock said...

THANK YOU for the video John and Happy Birthday and the video is great and maybe I want her job and thank you for the chocolate eggs too and helping Lestrade hide them and it was fun doing the clues.

Small Hobbit said...

Happy Birthday John. Hope you have the sunshine we have. Enjoy your day!

Anon Without A Name said...

Happy birthday John :-)

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday, John! And Happy Easter to you all. If you get tired of videos, Sherlock, will you tell us about the clues to find your eggs?

L, if you ever decide against that florist shop, consider opening a travel agency. I like your idea of a vacation!

I'm going to be surrounded by pictures of carrots and people singing about hopping today, you know, and I'll be smiling all day long, thinking of you guys.

rsf

pandabob said...

Happy birthday John have a great day :-)

REReader said...

Happy birthday, John!

And I'm glad you had fun with your Easter eggs hunt, Sherlock. :)

Sherlock said...

Lestrade wrote down things like clues to make up names or dates and then you had to look for the grave with that name or date and then once you found it you had to follow directions or find something nearby and then there would be an egg. Or you had to know what sort of tree or flower there was and then you'd find an egg or three of them were just hidden and I found them too

And Lestrade made lamb and cooked it on bones and it smells nice and it's going to be ready soon and I helped with the bones and with rubbing in the oil and herbs this morning.

REReader said...

It sounds like a very fun and exciting hunt--and you got chocolate!

And good job helping cook the lamb, it sounds yummy. Enjoy!

Anonymous said...

Wow, that sounds like a great Easter egg hunt, Sherlock. We always just had boiled eggs that we colored, and we took turns hiding them and finding them until they were all cracked and icky or we were too tired to do it again. And ham instead of lamb. But the lamb sounds good. Do you eat mint sauce with it? (I've read about mint sauce, but I've never actually seen it.)

rsf

John H. D. Watson said...

Thanks, everyone, and you're welcome for the wolf video, Sherlock. I'm sure you could do something like that when you grow up if you want to.

I have a wonderful family, just so everyone knows.

Greg Lestrade said...

(Sherlock is now begging to be allowed to take some road kill home with us)

John H. D. Watson said...

I feel like I should've predicted that...but at the same it could've easily happened without him seeing the videos.

Greg Lestrade said...

Absolutely. I think the video has only mildly spurred him on in his desire to own a lot of corpses.

Love you. Glad you like your presents.

John H. D. Watson said...

They're wonderful! I really still almost can't believe it. Are you going to post Sherlock's drawing later?

Greg Lestrade said...

Sure, if you're not going to post about your hoard of gifts ;)

John H. D. Watson said...

I could... I posted yesterday though. We have a rhythm going.

...Not that sort of rhythm, I know what you're thinking.

Greg Lestrade said...

Well, I don't mind a bit of syncopation ;) but yeah, I can post it. You can have a guest paragraph of you want ;)

Anonymous said...

Happy birthday John..hope it's as good as my boys! I'm sure you are being spoilt rotten so make the most of it :-)
Fen x

Anonymous said...

Happy birthday, John :) I can't sing, so in lieu of that have a vid I've been saving for a while (ever since reading about your adventures with bagpipes). Even as bashful as I am this group had me wanting to get up and dance. (Skip to 3:18 for when they really hit the good stuff.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZE9-j59jgA

Very Shy Anon

Greg Lestrade said...

Glad your boy is having a good day, Fen.

I hear Oxford have won the boat race. Makes me happy!

Piplover said...

Happy Birthday, John! I hope you all have a lovely day!

Small Hobbit said...

L - the didn't win by that much. Watched the race with OH saying things like "I got very drunk in that pub" and "the brewery used to smell".

Didn't realise that they now broadcast the comments of the coxes, including (oh how embarrassing) a swear word. Not sure what the race commentator who seemed shocked was expecting ;)

John H. D. Watson said...

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone, and shy anon, I'll watch your video in a bit, thanks. :)

Greg Lestrade said...

SH - I suppose I count anything more than a boat length as quite a lot.

Anon Without A Name said...

I have a wonderful family, just so everyone knows.

I think we got that impression, but no-one here is going to mind you telling us again. In detail, even :-)

John H. D. Watson said...

Shy anon - thank you for that link! I really enjoyed it. I wouldn't have thought of bagpipes and electric guitar going together particularly - or at all really - but they definitely made it work.

Anonymous said...

Glad you enjoyed! I was dubious too before I first saw them perform but pleasantly surprised after :)

VSA

Mazarin said...

Happy Birthday a bit late, John. Sorry I missed it, but in catching up seems like you had a wonderful weekend.

John H. D. Watson said...

Thanks, Maz. I really did. :) I hope things are going well for you too.

Anonymous said...

I'm a day late, but just want to say Happy Birthday, John! Sounds like you all enjoyed the birthday weekend very much.

LyricalSinger

John H. D. Watson said...

Thanks! It was a great weekend, yeah.

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