The table is TALLER than me and it is COVERED in the best smells that have ever existed! There is a bird up there. A WHOLE bird. Bigger than any bird I have chased and it is not even flying, it is just SITTING there being delicious, and nobody is guarding it well enough, I can tell, I am watching, I am a very good watcher.
My human is here! And the other humans! ALL of them! They only come out of the walls on this special smell-day and they are LOUD and happy and one of them dropped a thing on the floor and it was a potato and I got the potato. Best potato. Best day.
There is a human at the end of the table who is not talking much and sits very still and everyone speaks slower to that one, so I put my head on the knee there, because that is my job, I am the head-on-knee dog, and the hand came down and touched my ears and the sitting-still human made a small sound that was almost a happy sound. I did that! I FIXED it!
Something is burning a little! Someone is saying oh no! I love oh no, oh no means food is coming!
A cracker went BANG and I hid behind the couch and then I forgot why I was there and came back out and everyone was wearing little paper crowns and looking silly and I love them so much I could BURST.
My human is looking at me now. My human has the fork down low. My human is not looking at the bird. My human is looking at ME.
Here it comes. Here it comes. Here it comes.