Sitting in the bathroom

Ok, the title doesn’t sound good, but as you read on, you will see it is appropriate. Halfway to Joan’s house Mark J., looked over at me and said, “I sure hope marine remembers us”. In case you didn’t read one of the earlier stories, Marine is a big dog that Joan and John own. His bark is loud and he’s fast. Or should I say very, very fast. He really is a good dog, but if he doesn’t know you, well lets just say you’re in trouble. We pulled up to the house around 11:30 and Marine was on the front porch barking at us already. I think I’ll stay in the truck till he gets used to you first Mark. Of course he called me a big chicken, and guess what, I’d rather be a live chicken than a dead duck.
Surprisingly Marine didn’t raise that much of a fuss. He probably did remember us, but Bear on the other hand was barking up a storm. The first thing bear did was baptize my new tires. Thanks a lot.

Saturday morning I got up bright and early around 0600. I was attempting to go sit on the front porch since everyone was still asleep, until I got to the living room. Marine was in the living room and must have been in la la land since he didn’t even open an eye. I thought maybe I could go over or around Marine and get to the front door. That’s when I told myself: “self, if that dog wakes up in the middle of la la land he’s going to have some Mexican food for breakfast”. HmHmHmHm, I think I’ll go sit in the bathroom and look out of the window.

So I sat there for 45 minutes (that's right 45 minutes) enjoying the view from the bathroom window, looking at the squirrels out in the cold. About 0700 I saw a golf cart come down from the neighbors’ property and saw some curly haired guy walking up to Joans house. I tried to wake John up since he was closest to the door, and when the neighbor walked onto the porch, it must have startled Marine. He was up on all fours pretty fast, and he was barking and those big teeth were ready to eat.

Joan woke up and had John put Marine in the back room and we let the neighbor in. He just wanted to let us know where we could hunt and he seemed like a real nice fellow. We shook hands and I thanked him and he left. I looked at Joan, and asked where is Mark? About that time Mark came out with one eye still closed. Dude I can’t believe you slept through all that, I told him. Marine barking trying to rip the front door off to get breakfast, and Bear also trying to get in on the action. That’s when he asked, I heard you get up early, where were you? Uh uh uh uh…….(silence) in the bathroom looking outside!!! Hey, I like breakfast, I just don’t like being breakfast.