They are fun. Hiding them was a big thing in my family.

What are people up to this weekend? You people, that is.

Errands tomorrow and changing the sheets and riding the bike and then storing up energy for Easter with Tim's family, where we will be repeating last year's harebrained scheme of hiding 300 eggs for 14 kids (well, only 12 kids, because 2 are babies, but we'll probably mark off a small flat area for the babies where we just have a handful of eggs lying on the ground for them to look at in utter bafflement). That is still way too many eggs per kid, but the chaos is actually fun.

Timelies all!

Tuesday I went down to breakfast and noticed blood on the stairs and on the bathroom floor. Didn't know where it was from until Gary called me at work and said it was from Luna, and I should come back to take her to the vet. I did that, then went back to work. The vet noted Luna was dehydrated, had lost weight and was congested. They gave her fluids and an antibiotic shot, and sent me home with an appetite stimulant to put in her ear once a day, lactulose to give her orally every 6-8 hours and instructions to mix Miralax into her food.(She was also constipated)

I brought her back on Thursday for a followup. After noting how difficult it was to get the Lactulose in her, it was decided that I would give her Miralax twice a day. I was also given an antibiotic to give her once a day to help her congestion. That is not easy to give either.(And why would an antibiotic for a cat smell like bubblegum? Makes no sense.)

Otherwise, an ok week. Mr S is on spring break and was with the nanny most of the time.

I’m taking one cat in for his semi-annual blood work tomorrow. No real Easter plans. There’s a sunrise service in a big garden that would be lovely if it wasn’t, by definition, at sunrise and also 45 minutes away.

Health~ma for Luna.

We're hosting Paul's side of the family for Easter brunch. I've been talked out of making Corpse Revivers. (No.2, natch.)

I've been talked out of making Corpse Revivers

Awwwwww.

I've been talked out of making Corpse Revivers

Dang it, I voted for them.

Health~ma for Luna.

Corpse Revivers sounds like an excellent plan to me.

Huh. Today I took Leifur in for some regular blood work. After dropping him at home I ambled over to the local botanical gardens, which I try to do on the regular. But this time I met some members of the local Sierra Club who a) showed me how to ID plants with my iPhone’s photo ID function, b) showed me an art gallery at the gardens which I’d never known about (I’ve been going regularly since the center was built), and c) invited me to a poetry meetup in April. I came home and renewed my Sierra Club membership and signed up for the poetry event.

Getting outside. Turns out it can be good for you.

What are people up to this weekend? You people, that is.

I'm planning to make a cake today, though first I'm going to the farmers market and then by the store to get some frosting, since I decided that the homemade icing recipe that comes with the cake recipe is more trouble than it's worth. Then I'm one of the readers at tonight's Easter Vigil service at my church.

Then tomorrow we have a ham for Easter dinner all because a few weeks ago at Dylan's work, there was some reshuffling and one of his direct reports was sent to another manager's team. He wasn't immediately given a replacement, so he quipped that he'd been given a 2nd and a 4th-round draft pick, plus a bag of baseballs and a ham. A few days later, a honey-baked ham arrives on our doorstep, courtesy of the other manager.

Insofar as I have a traditional Easter dinner at all, it's either to make Alton Brown's pork wellington recipe or to get lazy and pick up a nice box of fried chicken from the QFC down the road. But I will not turn up my nose at free ham.