Bart - John, best friends in college
John - Shermoe, hunting buddies
Shermoe - Big Wave, hunting buddies
Big Wave meets Bart and they become hunting buddies.
Big Wave, nicknames are a plus, has been driving from Michigan to stay with us during hunting season for many years. He usually comes on very short notice and stays anywhere from a couple of days to more than a week. Panic, you say? Inconvenience? Nope! He's the easiest houseguest you will ever have. He comes home after dark, goes to bed before the kids and leaves in the morning around 4:30 a.m. He also calls on his way to the house offering to stop for groceries, bears gifts of homemade delicacies from his garden bounty and tells great stories.
Why, you may ask, does this guy drive from Michigan to Kansas twice a year?
Buckasaurus
To hear him tell it, Michigan does not have a large deer population but they do have a huge hunter population. Kansas, on the other hand, has a huge deer population and not a large hunter population. Kansas also has acres and acres of prime deer habitat...so much so that these areas are overpopulated.
Kansas is where Buckasaurus lives!
In the last few years, I've suspected that Bigwave has an alterior motive.
Cocobolo's Restaurant in Manhattan.
It has become an anticipated part of each visit...we head to Cocobolo's for some margaritas and de-vine food.
This year we took another hunting buddy, Ron, with us.
Thankfully his wife, Sherry, joined us, too. There's only so much pretending I can do that they are in the woods photographing wildlife when two or three hunters get together to tell stories with only one she-girl along.
Now he's a happy man! He can "photograph" his Buckasaurus and head home.
See you next spring, Bigwave.
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