About last night...

As I've mentioned, I have been taken through the wringer by a cold that showed some signs of graciously leaving me alone last night. Didgeridoo Boy, who's been down with it as well, also found himself feeling a little better, so we decided to do some housework. (Gooooo, TEAM!)

We were in the dining room, muddling around, purposefully procrastinating, when the lights blinked off, and back on. Didge and I looked at each other and bobbed - you know, that bendy knee bobbing movement. We both put our arms out like dj's about to put the needle on the record. They blinked again, and we bobbed again, looking up. (It's amazing the level to which he and I can unintentionally synch ourselves.) And then we looked out to the woods behind the house, to the side of the road where the power lines are, and noticed that a power line was bobbing up and down right along with us.

"What the hell??", Didge asked, as I pushed him out of the way and started to go out to the deck. He pulled me back and made it to the door first, and just as I ran into his back there was a SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS sound. Smoke was billowing out around the top of a power pole. A series of loud pops followed, featuring gigantic sparks that flew about fifteen feet up into the air. I yelled, "NINE ONE ONE? FIRE? SHIT? OHHHHH MYYYYYY GAWWWWWWD!". Didge called 911, claiming I was far too excited to talk to them clearly, finishing his conversation with them just before I stopped jumping up and down, moving from the dining room to the deck and back again. I seem to remember yelling, "TREEEEEES!" during the call, as the line is very, very close to some trees and I was very concerned that they would be set ablaze. Never mind that it had been raining on and off. Just disregard the fact that after the smoke and sparks, there were no flames.

(So, yes, I was jumping up and down on the deck yelling "TREEEEEEEES!" - but only for a second. There. I've admitted to it. I just wanted him to tell the 911 person that there were trees, because I thought somebody needed to know.)

All told, we were only without electricity for about an hour, and as soon as it was back on we cleaned up, had dinner, watched a movie, and ended the evening with Didge playing Grand Theft Auto as Totsi the Dog and I wandered back to bed. Other than the bird or squirrel we think likely caused the explosion (.....moment of silence.....), everything is fine and nothing caught fire. Not even the trees.