Some mornings the animals conspire to be crazy, the whole lot of them. This was one of those days. Buddy woke up eager to do everything. Like he hadn't eaten in days and was going to poop his pants if he didn't go out NOW.
"C'mon! "C'mon!"
After I fed him...and me...I took him out the cats decided it was Torment Buddy Day on Baker Rd. They know I've got him on a leash and they can dart across his path without any fear of getting caught. Not that Buddy doesn't try. Two cats, one cat-crazed dog, and one old man doing his best to avoid shoulder separation. Cat One has computed the safe distance at about 10'. On the way back to MoHo he casually mosied that distance in front of us, pausing every so often to let it get down to 8'. Buddy goes berSERK.
The goats picked up on the crazy theme and behaved like they, too, had been starved for days. Nubians are known for being a very vocal breed and two of our three does are half Nubian and half Boer. The former half woke up early this morning, and they can be surprisingly LOUD.
The pullets were the only critters to take the morning off.
Mom always played an offertory that she'd prepared and practiced through the week. We're not talking just some hymn played in a couple of different keys. She'd typically weave together several pieces on a theme, and often one of them was a classical piece that led into a hymn of a similar construction or theme.
When I'd come home from college she'd ask if I had any requests for that Sunday's offertory. More than once I asked for "The Evening Prayer" (aka the Children's Prayer) from the opera Hansel & Gretel. The musical theme shows up in the opera's overture and then Hansel & Gretel sing it as they get lost and lay down in the woods to sleep. The angels keep guard over them.
Oh my. If the word luscious can be used for music it fits here.
If you're curious, the English lyrics are here.
I've a soft spot for children, for evocative music, and for good stories, so this slays me.
BTW, this all came to mind because I sometimes listen to the opera channel on DirectTV and yesterday they played Hansel & Gretel in its entirety.
Tuesday night we'll do Historical Theology. So here's 2,000 years of church history in one pic. How many of the divisions/branches can you identify?
We'll label the tree as we go through the hour class. I *think* that by the time we're done they'll have a pretty good handle on what happened that created the very mixed bag we have now. (They'll label the branches as we go along.)
Then next week, in the fourth of four "Intro to Theol" sessions, we'll look at Dogmatic Theology and Contemporary Theology.
If this first course is deemed successful by the pastoral staff we'll do more courses beginning in the fall. One at a time, 4-6 weeks each, with a week or two break between them.
I don't know where the current ....
I got interrupted after typing those six words. Just came back 90 minutes later and have NO idea where that sentence was headed. None.
Sally's trunk lid is sanded down to bare metal, the dent has been filled and sanded, and the perimeter taped. Next up: primer. I don't expect to get to that tomorrow and probably not Tuesday. This afternoon I baked brownies for my Tuesday night class and still have to make the ginger snaps. Tomorrow afternoon I have to scramble 2 dozen eggs for our small group dinner (breakfast burritos). And with both lesson, and now sermon prep to do the priorities for the week have priming a Mustang trunk lid near the bottom.
Phooey. That's no fun.
OK, Buddy is giving me the "It's time for our walk" look and both Dolly and Frenchie are bellowing for their supper. I'll do those tasks, put the chickens back in the coop, and then have my supper. After dinner....if I can stay awake I'll do some prep.
Or maybe just go to bed.
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