Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! ~ Dr. Suess

A Happy Sunday

My birthday is coming up and so I started celebrating a little bit early. I decided that the way I’d celebrate this year is with a series of really good meals. I started this weekend with stuffed shells and Italian Sausage then moved on to a baked ham with potatoes au gratin. I’ve been finishing off meals with a root beer float, a warm up for the fact that I’ll be brewing my own root beer for the first time this week.

This past week was the first week of our semester and it was madness top to bottom. During the week we had state inspector visits, a loss of course accreditation, I found out another program is two years late on completing their testing accreditation, I had the standard rash of incredibly stupid questions, and actions taken by folks with graduate degrees that blow my mind that they happen. Ended the week with a COVID exposure that included me and showing up to two classes, only to find the teachers gave them an outside assignment, so they were getting paid for not teaching, nice work if you can get it. Which of course means that I will have to deal with a lot on Monday.

But Monday is still next week until after I sleep tonight, so today the celebration continues on and what a lovely day it’s been so far. I woke up and grabbed a cup of tea out on my patio in the tiny garden, admiring my tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and sunflowers. Sipping a cup of mint tea (boosted with some fresh mint from the garden) while the hummingbirds buzz in and out of the newly filled feeder. Yesterday afternoon, the red-throated male that considers the feeder his, sat on a branch just off the patio and trilled at me incessantly because I’d let the feeder run out. So I refilled it, begged his forgiveness and it’s been a buzzing feeding station since.

Ham and potatoes au gratin leftovers with a root beer float chaser while watching the reply of the Steeler preseason game where they played exceedingly well. All in all a lazy happy Sunday, my biggest concern today, writing this post and figuring out what the next great meal is going to be tonight for dinner. At the moment it’s a contest between making chicken Tikka Masala or a homemade pizza. I think I’ll take a walk by the ocean and figure it out. So happy birthday to me a little bit early and here’s hoping you all have a lovely and happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane