Sunday Dinner, May 30, 2010

I know everyone is getting tired of hearing that I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner, especially since I've been doing this Sunday Dinner thing for 4 years now. But this is a case of life changing and rearranging, so I'll just deal with each Sunday Dinner situation as it comes.

For this Sunday I know I'm not cooking so we'll be eating out somewhere, though I have no idea where, as usual.

If you'd like to share your plans/menu in the comments, please feel free to do so.

Lamar got home from Texas in the wee hours of Monday morning and we've spent this week getting back into our routine. I've done laundry and the usual household chores, and also watched Emmy Thursday morning and all day Friday.

Tonight I grilled a couple of pork chops and some chicken legs and thighs, and also some potatoes that I cut into 1 inch thick rounds, and some garden fresh yellow squash. It was great and I'm looking forward to all the fresh garden veggies that our family and friends share with us.

I also got soaked trying to finish up the grilling. A thunder shower came up pretty suddenly and I barely got the food cooked before it started blowing rain up under the overhang out back where I keep my grill. I was drenched before I got the food off the grill and everything carried inside, but it was worth it.

On top of my usual activities, I'm now nursing a 4 week old kitten that Jessica found in the middle of the street. Apparently its mother abandoned it, and it's so sick that I have my doubts that it's going to make it.

It has an upper respiratory infection and it was covered in fleas and I'm pretty sure it has some other serious problems, perhaps even feline leukemia. I've had it since Thursday afternoon and it just doesn't seem to be improving.

I'm giving it oral antibiotics and antibiotic salve for its eyes, but the main problem is that it just doesn't want to nurse from a bottle. I've even fed it a little with an eye dropper, but it's fighting me every step of the way and it's growing weaker. I just don't know if I'm going to be able to save the poor little thing.

I also know it's common for mother animals to abandon sick babies, this may be just such an instance. I'm trying to hard to save the poor thing, and at the same time trying to guard my heart against the inevitable hurt if the little thing dies. I think that is an impossible task though.

I'm trying to feed it every 2 hours during the day, and I'm getting up in the middle of the night to feed it too, though with not much success, so you might see what's taking up a lot of my time at the moment.

I'll try my best to do a post during this next week, but for now I need to get this published and take care of the kitten as well as my usual Saturday night routine.

Hope y'all have a wonderful, safe and meaningful Memorial Day. May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share, dear family and friends.