the weekend

We had a good Easter. I dyed some eggs blue (I dyed them while they boiled, so they're all one color) and then made Eggs A La Goldenrod on Easter morning. My MIL sent a smoked turkey, so we had that with fresh green beans and new potatoes for Easter dinner. Very nice.

We also had a productive Easter weekend...

• We did our taxes.
• We did yard work. I weeded a small flower bed while Rob mowed and edged.
• We put a bed up on bed risers to make room for storing suitcases that used to just sit in the nursery.
• We moved furniture around. (I use the word "we" loosely. I directed, R moved things.)
• We vaccuumed.
• We did a load of towels.
• We cleaned various things in preparation for the arrival of our mothers next weekend.
• We built a lamp.

Yeah, a lamp. We built it from scratch using one of those wiring kits from the hardware store.

Why? Because the freakin cats have killed 2 lamps now. TWO!! One while we were gone on our cruise in January. One a couple weeks ago, right in front of our eyes. They like to rub on lampshades. Lamps that are against a wall don't usually fall over, but we have one lamp on an end table that is not against a wall. This lamp - well, the original lamp and the ugly replacement lamp - did not fare so well when the cats rubbed on them.

The new lamp is wood. And it will be screwed to the end table. Safe from evil cat plots against our lamps.

The lamp isn't quite done. We were missing a nut, so we couldn't wire it. And it still needs to be stained. Eventually we'll make a second one - we cut the pieces for it but haven't put it together - so we can have matching lamps that are screwed to the tables.

Damn cats.

-jena