If you are reading this on Thursday, allow me to bid you a happy and safe Hoodie Hoo Day.
If you are reading this on Friday or some subsequent day, I am sorry that I wasn’t able to get the greeting to you in time.
I’ll try again next year, since Hoodie Hoo Day comes every Feb. 20.
In the meantime, you have several other days you can celebrate in the next couple of weeks.
Come Feb. 28, in fact, I plan to celebrate a daily double by observing two of my favorite days at once.
They are, as I’m sure you already know, National Chili Day and National Public Sleeping Day.
If ever a food dish deserved a day to itself, it would be chili.
Ever since I was a kid, chili has been my favorite food, and I distinctly remember that Sunday morning when the Bible lesson included a quote from Isaac:
“And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me...”
“Savoury meat,” Mr. Walker explained, was what they called chili in the Old Testament.
From that moment, Isaac was my favorite Bible character and I look forward to the happy day when he and I can share a hearty bowl of red and talk about this and that.
And: although it is disputed in some circles, chili is a vegetarian dish.
This is proven through deductive reasoning:
1. Cows are vegetarians.
2. Chili is made from cows.
3. Therefore, chili is a vegetarian dish.
In summation, as the lawyers say, it is tasty, it is theologically sound and it is vegetarian. Well worth a holiday.
And it makes perfect sense to pair it with National Public Sleeping Day. You gorge yourself on a bowl of red, then find a sunlit park bench for a proteininduced nap.
Kismet. And what of National Hoodie Hoo Day. Well, that is a day that is set aside for residents of the Northern Hemisphere to step outside at noon, wave their hands over their heads and yell “Hoodie Hoo!”
Allegedly, that prepares the celebrators for spring, which is but a month away.
Who knows? It might actually work. But hey. A good bowl of chili and a nap can do the same thing.