2010-12-10

He Said – Fool Moon

Over Thanksgiving Saturday, while down visiting my parents, Cora, Gwen, Mom, Dad, & I went over to the village of East Davenport, Iowa. It's a quaint section of town with little shops. It includes and art / frame store, Woodland Gallery, where my mom & dad have done some shopping.

They have gotten a few P. Buckley Moss prints framed, including this one:

Der Weiss Homestead

They also had a fabulous picture of a young Native American woman, refreshing herself in a mountain pool with a big water fall behind her. It was a bit like if you merged these pictures:

Girl at Waterfall Girl at Waterfall - 5 Girl at Waterfall - 4

I kept telling Cora we hadn't decorated our bedroom yet. She wasn't buying it. In any sense of that phrase.

Fool-Moon

While we were in there shopping, Cora kept picking up this Christmas ornament and admiring it.

She kept looking at it.

Laughing about it.

Showing to every one.

Putting it back down.

Well, the shopkeeper distracted her with a box of Pixies, and a plan formed in my brain. While she and and Gwen were off looking at pictures in one section of the store, I casually walked over to my dad, and said, "Don't say anything, just hand me the keys."

Keys pocketed, I grabbed the ornament box, and tried to find the another one so that if she went back, my secret wouldn't be blown.

No luck. This was the last one. Bauble in hand, I went to the owner, and told him that it was a gift for my wife, and I needed to get this done FAST before she missed me. After he rang me up, I hustled the gift out to my bag in the car, safely stashed.

I'm a sneak.

I returned to the store, and she didn't notice a thing. Whenever we were back in that section of the store, I positioned myself so that she would not really walk past the end of the table where it had been. Eventually, we left the store, and I had pulled it off.

Sunday, when we got back, I snuck the Fool Moon onto her tree. (Yes, there is "Her tree", "My tree", and "Gwen's tree". You got a problem with that?) I was going to wait for her to see it, but I couldn't hold out.

I'm weak.

With the goose hanging right below a mini version of an arcade Pac-Man, I called Cora over to show me how to make it work. She looked at me a little confused. Like she could smell that I was up to something, but couldn't exactly make out what I was up to. So, she fiddled with the Pac-Man, pushed a few buttons, and the famous little Pac-Man ditty started up.

And then I asked her to do it again, but to look 2 inches down and to the right. (Taken out of context, that sentence sound a bit naughty, doesn't it?)

This was followed by a couple little jumps, hand claps, and a sustained squeal of joy.

Papa done good. :-)

To read Cora's take on this, go to HER BLOG.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

You done good.

Cora said...

Yes, it's true. I am easily distracted by chocolate. Please use that information only for good, not evil. ;-)

Cowguy said...

Heh heh... you goosed her and she didn't even notice. At first. :-) Very cool ornament, Scope.

Scope said...

Cowguy - Must have gotten the numb butt cheek. It's handy for groping your wife in public, and not being caught... even by her.

Anonymous said...

I can't believe you just referred to yourself as Papa. LOL!
Good job on surprising Cora though.

LegalMist said...

Awesome job, you romantic awesome dude, you!

SkylersDad said...

Good job surprising Cora, nicely done. And in case you are keeping score, I vote for girl at waterfall #1.

J.J. in L.A. said...

"You sneaky, sneaky, white boy."

I love that quote from Everybody Loves Raymond...and it certainly applies in this instance! Good job!

But you do know that you can never give Cora chocolates now without her getting suspicious, don't you? ; )

Gwen said...

You is a good man, Scope Collins.

Jan @ Struck by Serendipity said...

Well done!

Now hopefully she'll use this as inspiration to go buy you the picture of the women refreshing herself in a mountain pool.

That's the point of this post, right? :)

ShanaM said...

what a cool guy you are!!