Tupelo Honey Ramblings

 

My wife was really interested to hear Scott Hahn, an American Catholic theologian, speak at a church in the urban jungle, so we drove up there one morning not long ago. There were a lot of others with the same idea but we were able to get some "good" seats for the lecture which was three hours long with a 20 minute break in the middle. 

Mr. Hahn is a gifted speaker for sure but just not in a format that was easy for me to digest. His rapid fire bombardment to the audience, of points in his two lengthy speeches, was just hard for me to latch onto. I would have been better served reading the speeches at my leisure. My wife enjoyed it all though and I guess at the end of the day, that is what counts. 

The seating however, was in your typical wooden pew style seating, only these particular pews had no contours to them. Just a flat wooden board to sit on and a slightly reclined flat board to rest your back against. By the end of the three hours, I was "stove up" as my family sometimes says. I'm not sure on the origins of that phrase other than we use it to mean that we are stiff and hurting.

After the lecture, we decided to hit up a new-to-us restaurant called "Tupelo Honey". I ended up ordering a fried chicken BLT and my wife got fried chicken with grits. The fried chicken was as expected, pretty tasty but my BLT was a bit over sauced and very messy eating. Half as much of the honey mustard sauce would have been just perfect. Somehow though, I made it through lunch without spilling a drop of sauce on me though I did turn my cloth napkin into a total wreck getting my hands clean. 

We drove home in the pouring rain, a very welcome sight after the dryish year we had last year and the light winter we have had thus far. The timing of the lecture was good because the following day was a full blown blizzard on the back end of the rain, the first I've seen in a few years, though we only ended up with maybe an inch of snow out of it. We did have a full day of 50 mph winds with gusts up near the 70 mph range. I haven't yet been out and about yet but I expect there will be a number of trees and branches down around town. Looking out my windows, I haven't seen any destruction on our property.