Our Trip Into Big Scrub......

was thankfully uneventful yesterday. As we returned 8.9 miles down the dirt road and deeper into the Forest to our Big Scrub destination I felt the freedom of being back into the "great outdoors!" Maggie slept fitfully last night as did I at first. As soon as lay down my head I heard a loud noise right by our bedroom window. Mind you...we are back into the dark dark darkest of nights without benefit of street lights out here. I quickly rammed a sharp elbow into Billy's side to go investigate the LOUD noise. Of course he didn't hear a thing. He stuck his head out the door and said that he didn't see a thing "out there." I begged him to look again as the noise was loud. Low and behold our rather heavy outside rocking chair was knocked completely over....bear, racoon, possum? Your guess is as good as ours. Then our electricity began surging until it finally completely shut down. Billy went outside with his trusty flashlight (the floodlight is now charging) to investigate. We couldn't get the power back on so we slept through the night with the generator running. Billy cancelled his shrimping trip this am so he wouldn't leave me stranded alone out in the boonies without electricity. As soon as the sun came up Billy was able to find the main circuit breakers and you guessed it....We have power and Life Is Good Today!