Jimmie Davis State Park

Jimmie Davis State Park, another nice Louisiana State Park, but difficult to enjoy.  The cold front had hit here hard!  So cold, I did not get a photo.  Well, that was part of the reason.  The other part was I was too busy trying to get a small black kitten out from under the RV.  After we had parked, we kept hearing a kitten mewing and finally decided it was under the RV.  Ditto and I got out in the cold and wet to investigate.

I finally located it hunkered down on top of one of the waste storage tanks.  There was a space hardly big enough for me to get my arm in there.  But, the kitten was too far back for me to reach it.  I had to resort to trying to scare it out.  So, after beating and banging and prodding with a stick, it finally shot out and ran up to the front of the RV and jumped up on top of a front tire.

I crawled out and went up from to try to coax it from the tire, but by now it was too spooked to have anything to do with me.  It somehow climbed up into the engine compartment and up on top of the engine.  Now anyone familiar with a motorhome like ours, knows that you don't just open the hood and access the top of the engine.  You have to remove a cover inside and even then, access is minimal.  So, I removed the inside cover, but the cat was not in sight.  After shining my flashlight around some, I finally located it down behind the exhaust manifold.  I managed to grasp it by the neck and pull it out.

I got out of the RV with the little black frantic kitten in tow and as I tried to adjust my grip, it bit the crap out of me.  A little kitten sure has sharp teeth and claws.  Anyway, I dropped it.  It ran away into the woods.

At first, I thought it was okay now, but then realized it was miserable cold and wet and hardly campers so it was unlikely to find anything to eat or get out of the cold.

Our campsite was located near a small lake and the kitten had ran toward the lake which was only a few yards away.  Ditto and I headed there to see if we might capture it again.  I found the poor thing hunkered down next to a tree and apparently too afraid to move.  Being a little smarter, I put on my gloves and snatched it up again.

I took the frantic little thing back to the RV, but it was too wound up to turn loose inside and try to feed it.  So, I dropped it in a pillowcase where it would at least be warm and could settle down.

Our next stop is Monticello, Ar.  We plan spending Christmas with Stephen there.  We left the kitten with Stephen.  Here it is a few weeks later.

Lake Fausse Pointe State Park

Lake Fausse Pointe State Park is another nice Louisiana State Park.  In fact, it seems Louisiana has some of the best maintained and outfitted parks we have visited...anywhere.  The only problem, it rains there.  And in a December winter storm, that rain is cold!

But, we were on our way home now.