Recently, Mr. M and I discovered my forgotten collection of MacGyver episodes. We spent ALL DAY today watching them! I hadn't remembered how bad 80's acting was. Gosh, MacGyver was so talented with his chewing gum fixes and makeshift bombs (I'll tell ya- watch the first eight episodes from season one of MacGyver and you'll be a bomb expert!). It reminded me a little of how things have always been taken care of on the farm. Oh, that saddle came loose? Here's a piece of baling twine, some ducttape, and a piece of leather thong. The truck won't run? Let me under the hood with a chewing gum wrapper and I'll jiggle it in there somehow! Mama Bear and I were always fixing things out of nothing. In short, we were MacGyvers ourselves, even though we had forgotten about the joy that is watching a goody-two shoes fixing life's major troubles with a tree branch, some twine, and a paperclip.
Mama Bear still enjoys my favorite childhood show. Mr. M is less impressed and much more inclined to point out that MacGyver probably couldn't have gotten away with free-climbing up a cliff face into an enemy encampment wearing a bright red ski cap and blue jacket to rescue a hostage and disarm a nuclear warhead with only a pocket knife, a parachute, and a flare gun. After all these years, I am still impressed.
Enjoy the frugal lifestyle our MacGyver-esque fixes enable us to lead... hopefully with a few laughs and other adventures thrown in for good measure.
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