Today’s
excerpt is from Bigfoot Bait, Book #2 of the Becker Trilogy. Breakfast in the National Forest before the
hunt for the kidnappers starts. Enjoy
and have a wonderful day.
m.j.
Holly groaned in
the background. “Hey, you jerks—hold it
down. I’m trying to sleep.”
Hector got out
of his sleeping bag. “Me, too. But since you brought food, it’s okay.”
Bob also got up,
but said nothing.
Holly groaned as
she got up. “Well, if everyone else is
up, I guess I have to shake a leg, too.
You need help cooking, husband?”
“Nope.”
“Good.”
With everyone up
and moving around, Dan—who came prepared after a fast visit to his war
bag—started slicing the ham and bacon, while Jim put the skillet on the grate
of the barbeque pit.
Since Jim’s
coffee wasn’t ready, everyone helped themselves to coffee from the
thermoses. Bob tasted his and
nodded. “Damned good coffee. Come from the urn in the gas station store in
Entiat?”
Dan joked,
“Yes—I filled the thermoses while Janet flirted with the old guy running the
place. Now she wants to buy a part
interest in it. He flirted back.”
While eating,
and then cleaning up, the six discussed their plan of attack for the coming
day. They agreed everyone would team up
and check out assigned roads, paths, et cetera, while leaving the two unused
vehicles right where they were. The two
vehicles would be the SUV and one of the cars, with Bob and Hector in one of
the cars, Jim and Holly in another, and Dan and Janet in one.
When they were
packing up from the overnight stay, Jim had an idea. “You know, we killed off all the eggs, but
the rest of this ham and bacon is gonna go bad if we don’t do something about
it. How about you cutting up the rest of
it, Dan? Then I’ll cook it all on the
grill here. We can divide it up and snack
on it during the day.”
Dan nodded. “Beats the hell outta MREs.”
While those two
took care of that, everyone else took care of various other items. Jim’s coffee—finally drinkable—was poured
into two empty thermoses, while another one was topped off.
Janet made a
trip to the stream where Jim had cut himself shaving and she carefully washed
up the cutting board and skillet.
When all was
accomplished, the three cars left the campsite for their various assigned
roads. It was to be a long day.
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