We purchased a new receiver and speakers back in the fall, installed the left, right, and center speakers in November; the subwoofer when we got the new television.

Today we finally got the left and right surround speakers up and going.

I couldn't really tell if sound was coming out of them, so I popped the one movie in I knew would tell us. Last week James bought a copy of Always. I suppose most folks see it as a love story that has airplanes in it, but James sees it as an airplane movie interrupted by a love story. :-) As the movie opens, two fishermen are in a motorboat on the lake. It is quiet, then engine sounds come up, louder and louder, and you see the front of a plane heading straight for the boat. The plane does get off the surface of the lake without hitting the boat, although the guys have to dive in the water. When you watch this in a surround system, you hear the plane coming on the front speakers, then it switches to the back speakers as the plane passes over.

So James sat down next to me on the sofa and sure enough, the plane made the passover noise. And then he sat, engrossed in the planes, and there I sat, engrossed in Richard Dreyfuss :-), and I turned down the overhead lights and we watched the movie snuggled together.

When it was over, he looked at me curiously. "Have we ever done this before?" he asked, meaning just sat and watched a movie together, without also reading, being on the computer, eating, playing with the dog or bird, etc.

Well, I'm pretty sure we did, many years ago, but even I can't remember when!

(Oh, and BTW, he cried at the end, too.)

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