Monday, July 16, 2012

25th anniversary

On this very day 25 years ago I eloped with Michael Thomas Miller, a man who in the past year has raced on horseback to the pyramids of Giza (and won, mind you), was passed off (in his blithe innocence) as a potential groom in Vietnam while on a medical-mission trip, and spent the night on a high, narrow ledge of the Crazy Mountains wrapped in the bloody skin of a mountain goat (shades of Star Wars.) Things just get more and more wild and curious, and I can't wait to see what happens next.

15 comments:

mary bullington said...

Happy Anniversary--and happy years to come, Marly.

marly youmans said...

Thank you here and elsewhere, Miss Mary B (why does everybody comment on facebook, I wonder? I must be more a facebook sort than a blogger or a twitterer.) And yes, I really did elope. (Trala!)

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Dale said...

Is there really a Crazy mountain range? And was the goat alive when the night started? Inquiring minds want to know! :-)

Happy anniversary! Such an improbable adventure-quest, marriage, eh? It only gets wilder, on the far side of the 30th, I promise :-)

marly youmans said...

Yes, before it became the wrapper in a potential grizzly snack, the mountain goat was most definitely alive...

Crazy Mountains are across the river from Yellowstone.

Definitely. I can wait five years, I think! Right now I'm just hoping that he makes it home from Chicago and isn't eaten by a lion in Mozambique.

Clive Hicks-Jenkins said...

Happy Anniversary Marly and Mike. Thats a snazzy description-in-a-paragraph of a 25 year relationship. Can't wait for the book! Will I get to do the cover, I wonder. I do hope so. Mike wrapped in a bloody goat's skin is a startling though exciting possibility to consider!

marly youmans said...

And that was just the past year or thereabouts... Yes, he is quite the subject! XD

marja-leena said...

Happy 25th anniversary! What an exciting match. May the next 25 be as exciting... worthy of a book as Clive said.

marly youmans said...

Thank you, thank you? Where's my silver?! Yes, I hope so...

Elsa Louise said...

You seem like such a romantic spirit and from your descriptions of your husband, he is cut from the same bolt; how appropriate to have an elopement as your joining ceremony.

Happy anniversary, and may you and your dear one share many more.

Martyn Wendell said...

Congratulations! Here's to 25 more, and even greater adventures.

marly youmans said...

Thank you, Elsa Louise: I hope so!

marly youmans said...

And Martyn, thank you. I think I'll be content with moderate adventure and decent health for the next quarter-century...

Laureline said...

Happy anniversary, belatedly! What a pair you two are!

marly youmans said...

"What a pair": indeed. For better and for worse! XD