If the Pope had experienced my day --- he would he would have cussed. Some times a person should maybe just go back to bed. It is now 9:34 at night and soon I will do just that.

The morning started with no internet or phone sevice to the house which required dealing with Time Warner which is always fun. An hour later, that was fixed.

Ms. Kate and I planned to take a rather benign road trip from home to the Nashville, TN area in order to do some scouting out in the area for our July family reunion. Nashville is roughly three and a half hours from our house. We left home around 0930 with hopes of stopping along the way to pick up some new material to refinish a couple of chairs. We got about 25 miles from home and picked up a huge piece of metal in the tire of our brand new Cadillac SRX. Guess what? That model does not come with a jack or a spare tire. They give you a small air compressor and a can of sealant which was useless in our case. So, through a series of calls to Cadillac Road Service and a two hour wait along side of the highway we ended up being towed back to Evansville and our Cadillac dealer. We spent another two and a half hours there while they decided what I knew; --- I had to have a new tire! Duh!!! So, at 1430, we were finally back on the road, $240.00 poorer.

We got to TN and the exit we thought the fabric shop was at and couldn't find it but, --- we did manage to drive all over the area and end up a whole three miles farther down the road than we had been. Just another adventure!

We finally got to our hotel and relaxed for a few moments. Then, we decided to try and find the Loveless Café, a local famous eatery. We had been looking forward to coming here for a meal for some time and were considering it as a place to take everybody for a meal during our family reunion. The meal was a total disappointment. The fried chicken was dry as a bone and the rest of the meal was just "so so".

But --- you know, we got here safely and are no worse for the wear. So, when your day sucks like ours did, stop and look around at the bright things in your life. While I was waiting beside the road I had a chance to pull up Facebook and see a picture of the brand new baby that one of our parishioners had yesterday. It brightened my entire day. God is so very good.

Blessings!