I’ve forgotten how much fun it is being in the wilds listening to nature around you. So much so that when I was up on one of our sites taking some site photographs, and heard the rustling around me I briefly shat myself. Primarily because the first thing that popped into my head was the possibility of it being a mountain lion. For one thing the creature was undoubtedly large and another thing was that it seemed to be coming straight towards me. So I stood there trying to figure out how to use a Panasonic camera to fight off a cougar and wishing T-Mobile had better coverage so at least my last screams could be heard by my loved ones.

In the end, rather anticlimactically, it turned out to be a rather mentally challenged mule deer who gandered up, gave me a rather surprised look and then took off running when I switched on my camera to take a photograph (shitty office camera was hugely noisy on start up). I must say though the experience took me back to the good old days, and I do miss the days of wandering around the woods. I should get back to it someday.