My July Fourth Weekend

This is my weekend, in list form, starting from when I left, to when I came back, so enjoy, have fun, and laugh at my problems, because I certainly will :-)

1) Left for the parents place on Friday afternoon after work. Took the two cats with me, as I had no one to care for them.

2) Decided busy highway with long delays, and two cats required me to take backroads. so I started to head off in a north westerly direction.

3) 1/3 of the way home, smelt something funny

4) Very soon after number 3), realized the cat had an accident, which was why he was meowing loudly, and incistenly

5) stopped in the wonderful town of Jordan (see, and you thought I would mention getting lost) at a gas station and took care of the stinky cat. Some information about Jordan: The Jordan butcher shop sells the best bologna in the world. When someone From Winsted goes to Jordan to buy Bologna, they buy like ten rings of the stuff for people who have requested it.

6) Got home, cleaned up the other cat who had been drooling pretty much from the start of the trip, got him cleaned up, did a load of laundry. Fun

6)later that night, learned about the game of polish golf, or as it was called by my sister "dingleberries". My soon to be brother-in-law told her that was the name of the game. She believed him.

8)went to bed

9)Saturday, woke up, Ate Breakfast, went to IKEA with the sister from 6). Bought a garlic press. Went to a fabric store. bought some material. went to office max. didn't buy anything. went to Caribou coffee, bought both of us a choclate chiller. It was pretty yummy

10)went home.

11)had dinner. Finished laundry. Yeah Clean clothes!

12)spent an enjoyable evening watching twins game with my dad, and alternately sitting on the deck with a book. Nice night, until mosquitoes showed up.

13)went to bed

14)now it is sunday. Had a nice half egg omelet for breakfast. Julie (the sister) had the other half. Then went to St. Cloud to visit my cousin. Looked at her baby duckies trapped in the window well. wasn't too sure what to do with them, so left them be.

15)went to Brainerd to go Geocaching. Found a nice patch of raspberries, but not the cache.

16)went to next geocache site. Found it in a patch of downed woods. Took a glass turtle, left a praying hand bookmark.

17)went to the next chache. Next to a river. Aparently the cache was IN the river. Got eaten alive by mosquitos, left quickly.

18)last cache to look for. Found another nifty raspberry patch. These raspberry patches made up for not finding the previous two caches. Ate our fill of raspberries, went to look for the cache. Wandered around woods, GPS signal all messed up due to woods, Found a huge tree, found the cache. GPS unit said we were fifty feet from the hiding place. Lots of signal bouncing. Took a dinosoar, left a face bookmark (Em, the cousin person, had a bunch of ugly bookmarks given to her)

19)did a woodtick check. left for St. Cloud. Stopped at the Dairy Queen. Had a raspberry cheescake blizzard. Not as good as strawberry variety.

20)got back to St. Cloud. Felt really sorry for baby ducks in Window well. Decided to save them. Very cute and fuzzy. As soon as they started cheeping, Momma duck flew by, and looked concerned. Got all the ducklings out, but Momma forgot one. So me and Em herded the little duckling to momma, but momma was having none of that. Finally picked little duckling up, and brought it to the other side of the hedge Momma was behind. Little guy went through bushes and got to momma. Yeah! little duckling saved! Until something eats them. :-)

21)went back to winsted. ATe some yummy steak (pasture raised not feedlot) Yummy.

22)Took a shower. Found two woodticks. REad a book. Went to sleep

23)Next day, packed to go home. attempted to put on pants from previous day. Found three more woodticks. Decided a clean pair of pants were in order, and left original pair in dirty laundry pile.

24)collected cats

25)left. Tried to save a turtle, but he was already gone. So sad. Unnecessary death.

26)No smelly accidents.

27)arrived home. the other cat drooled only a little

28)later that night had a perfect view of the fireworks show from my roof. Very nice.

That was my weekend, in 26 fun steps!

Love Carrie