diff --git a/api/ovdashboard_api/dav_calendar.py b/api/ovdashboard_api/dav_calendar.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9376955
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/ovdashboard_api/dav_calendar.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+import logging
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+from typing import Iterator
+
+from caldav import Calendar
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+from vobject.base import VBase
+
+from . import caldav_principal, get_ttl_hash, run_in_executor, timed_alru_cache
+
+_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class CalEvent(BaseModel):
+    summary: str
+    description: str
+    dtstart: datetime
+    dtend: datetime
+
+
+@timed_alru_cache(maxsize=20)
+async def _get_calendar(
+    calendar_name: str,
+) -> Calendar:
+
+    @run_in_executor
+    def _get_calendar_inner() -> Calendar:
+        _logger.info(f"updating {calendar_name}")
+        print(f"updating {calendar_name}")
+
+        return caldav_principal().calendar(calendar_name)
+
+    return await _get_calendar_inner()
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class DavCalendar:
+    calendar_name: str
+
+    @property
+    async def calendar(self) -> Calendar:
+        return await _get_calendar(
+            ttl_hash=get_ttl_hash(20),
+            calendar_name=self.calendar_name,
+        )
+
+    @property
+    async def events(self) -> Iterator[CalEvent]:
+
+        async def _find_vevents() -> Iterator[VBase]:
+            calendar = await self.calendar
+
+            return (
+                vevent
+                for event in calendar.date_search(
+                    start=datetime.now(),
+                    end=datetime.now() + timedelta(days=365),
+                    expand=True,
+                )
+                for vevent in event.vobject_instance.contents["vevent"]
+            )
+
+        return (
+            CalEvent(
+                summary=vevent.summary.value,
+                description=vevent.description.value,
+                dtstart=vevent.dtstart.value,
+                dtend=vevent.dtend.value,
+            )
+            for vevent in await _find_vevents()
+        )
diff --git a/api/ovdashboard_api/routers/calendar.py b/api/ovdashboard_api/routers/calendar.py
index c63e7ec..d8edd3d 100644
--- a/api/ovdashboard_api/routers/calendar.py
+++ b/api/ovdashboard_api/routers/calendar.py
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from typing import Iterator
 
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends
-from pydantic import BaseModel
 
-from .. import caldav_principal
+from ..dav_calendar import CalEvent, DavCalendar
 from ._common import CalendarNameLister, PrefixFinder, PrefixUnique
 
 router = APIRouter(prefix="/calendar", tags=["calendar"])
@@ -28,30 +26,8 @@ async def find_calendars(
     return list(names)
 
 
-class CalEvent(BaseModel):
-    summary: str
-    description: str
-    dtstart: datetime
-    dtend: datetime
-
-
 @router.get("/get/{prefix}", response_model=list[CalEvent])
 async def get_calendar(
     name: Iterator[str] = Depends(_unique),
 ) -> list[CalEvent]:
-    calendar = caldav_principal().calendar(name=name)
-
-    return (
-        CalEvent(
-            summary=vevent.summary.value,
-            description=vevent.description.value,
-            dtstart=vevent.dtstart.value,
-            dtend=vevent.dtend.value,
-        )
-        for event in calendar.date_search(
-            start=datetime.now(),
-            end=datetime.now() + timedelta(days=365),
-            expand=True,
-        )
-        for vevent in event.vobject_instance.contents["vevent"]
-    )
+    return list(await DavCalendar(name).events)