Camping, parties, kittens, decks, and worms

Well, I went camping with my family and the tent idea was scratched. It was one of those miserable weekends where it rained and got cold. I ended up staying inside the camper and sleeping in there. My cousins and grandparents were there but in my grandparents camper. My mom and I played cards and watched the news a bit before going to bed.

My cousins High School graduation party was a blast. They had tons of people coming in and out. I was amazed! I did get my attention grabbed by the new batch of kittens they had in the old garage out back. They were so cute. They had their mother watching them. BUT, there was a single lone abandoned kitten walking around. They said it had been abandoned by its mother about three days ago. The poor thing was starving and following the little kids - hoping for food. It broke my heart when I saw the kids playing rough with it, so of course I grabbed it and fed it a little cooked turkey and water. It almost bit my finger off! I just feel so bad for the thing and I kow I can't take it home and they didn't want anything to do with it, so I did my best to ask everyone if they wanted a kitten. One girl near the end of the night said she could take it because it was the same age as the kittens her mom and dad had gotten for the barn. She said they'd spoil it and it would have brothers and sisters to play with. I hope it has a good life - I can only hope. I have such a pull to kittens - it's horrible! I see one hungry or abandoned and I will want to give it a home. It happened two times last year with two other cats.

On another note, my grandparents had me stay with them an extra few days to help with their new deck. I was to unscrew all the screws of the old wood and help install the new planks when they got delivered. Well - they never got delivered. Apparently they ad never gotten the order! Menards has a mail-in order system that failed this time. Now my grandparents have no deck and need to wait for a new order. I doubt they'll go through that company again. The young man apparently doesn't check up on his orders - "has sooooo many coming in all the time" - the company will lose ground with the non-commercial customers if they keep that up.

Yesterday morning I went a worm hunting (animated) with my grandfather. He grabbed the pitchfork and handed me the bucket. We went around and dug and searched, but not many were showing their squirmy little heads. All we ever dug up was hordes of ants. I'd never seen so many - every fork full had a swarm of them and then we dug up the baby ants left and right. We got maybe 10 worms in that half hour of searching. Sad, sad, sad.