Final throes of heart month

The final package of stories for the American Heart Month project was published in Sunday's editions. I have one more story I'm writing for Wednesday's paper, wrapping up the month with a look ahead toward an April event in Ebesnburg that could be a precursor to the American Heart Association's next big national fundraiser.
I plan to write a final column for Wednesday's paper, which will also be my last heart-month blog posting. Therefore, I don't want to expand too much here, except to say it has been a very rewarding month.
After wrapping up the writing on Friday evening, I was headed home when I realized I had not posted to the blog. I almost batted out a couple paragraphs from home, but decided my marital health was as important as my heart health. I took my Lovely Bride out on the town with for a very enjoyable evening with friends at the Westwood Gardens karaoke event. No I didn't sing “Dog and the Butterfly,” “What About Love?” or any other Heart songs.
We didn't perform at all – only danced a little and cheered on the vocalists.
The rest of the weekend we were busy, but did not get out for any real cardiovascular exercise. I guess we need a personal trainer to scream at us and shame us into the exercise thing.
It worked for our older cat. Gypsy was 10 this year, and was told by her veterinarian a couple years ago that she should get more exercise and lose some weight.
Maybe she'd chase one of those laser lights around the room, or maybe we could get her to run after some toys, the vet suggested. We tried it, but she just looked at us like Morris when he was being finicky (for those of you old enough to remember the old 9-Lives commercials).
Then we got Purrsey. He got his name from being persistent at repeatedly jumping onto things he was pushed off – and  for the noise he likes to make in our ears when we are sleeping.
Purrsey races and jumps after and onto Gypsy whenever he is bored. She spends most of her waking hours running away from him and jumping up onto counters or chairs to intimidate him.
It has done wonders for her waistline and heart health.