Three Strikes and Out

Arrived in Biscuit Hollow at 6:45 tonight, very dusk. Noted a black spot in the skid trail above the log landing just up the road from the house. Pulled in and shown the headlights on it and discovered it to be a LARGE black bear. I watched it eat apples for about five minutes before it ambled up the hill. Tried to get a picture but it was too dark. Even with the headlights. Then as I drove down to the house several deer ran across the upper yard. This promised to be a good weekend! Tomorrow, I’ll go out early at the crack of dawn and do some scouting for deer, set up a few tree stands during the day and do some chores. Scout some more in the evening, and then Saturday is the first day of bow season. Deer AND bear.

Then I walked in the house and my plans changed. Remember I had furnace problems here a couple of weeks ago? Then the hot water tank at home? Well, it’s baseball season and hopefully the cliché, “Three strikes and you’re out” applies. Out of bad luck that is. The circuit breaker to the furnace had tripped. Flipped it back on and the furnace started right up. What else is on that electrical circuit? The freezer full of meat…. While there was still some bags of ice that had not thawed, all of the meat had. And who knows how long it had been thawed. So tomorrow I’ll be cleaning out the freezer; dumping all of the meat. Yuck! Good thing deer season starts Saturday so I can start anew stocking the freezer.

With luck.

Ummm, maybe it had better be a new freezer. The old one has to be 40+ years old.