Time to Move?

First of all, what the heck am I doing awake at 6:30am? From personal habit and experience, writing is very calming to me and helps sort things out so I don't end up in an anxiety attack...this would be one of those moments and already, it's working.

I have to give kudos to my dad...foreshadowing much or are you just psychic?

We have these neighbors, they have 2 scotties that bark at all hours of the night and start barking solid at around 6:30 am. The dogs are on the same side of the house as our bedroom, in fact, no more than 2o feet from our master bedroom large glass window is where they "perch" and bark non stop. Usually, Jamison wakes up whenever they bark and this morning was no exception but the dogs were unusually agitated and started full bore at 5:30am. After 15 minutes of solid barking I put on my shoes and went next door.

When our neighbor answered his intercom I said in Spanish "Hi, I'm from next door, It's really early in the morning could you please put your dogs inside?"

The dogs continued to bark so I went back to his front gate and buzzed again.

This time he came out and I walked up to him saying (again, in Spanish, I didn't know he spoke English at this time) "It is really early, Please, could you put your dogs inside?" I was intentionally being super nice so he'd have no ammo to yell at me or anything...which is when I noticed the gun.

While in the dark it looked like a .22...even a .22 could hurt a bit. He said "Do you have a problem?" intermingled with several swear words. I pointed out the obvious, not quite in a panic yet but my niceness was being replaced by 'holy crap this guy is crazy'. "I'm pregnant, I have young kids, I just came over to ask if you could just put your dogs inside so we can sleep?" I didn't understand his reply, which was full of swearing among other words I did't recognize, so I said "I'm sorry, my Spanish isn't that good, what?". He got very agitated and in English mocking me "You don't understand? You don't understand?" waving his gun. So again, my request, this time in English "I'm just asking if you could put the dogs inside" Which is when he said "no, there is a man outside whistling"....ummmm, ok....

I ended it by saying, "I just came over to ask if you'd be a good neighbor..." and he cut me off pointing the gun and said "I'm NOT a good neighbor".

I came inside, the dogs were still going nuts, Kris asked if I wanted him to go talk to the neighbor which is when I said "uh no, he just pointed a gun at me, I don't want him to shoot you".

So Kris contacted the RSO just to report it for security reasons, not that anything can be done about it here in Mexico, but at least the embassy will have a report if something bad happens. Kris was also concerned to put it mildly. If a guy can point a gun at an obviously pregnant woman in a green flannel pioneer-looking night gown what else would he do? I'm thinking if he doesn't come over and profusely apologize he's a complete nutt job. He looks like an unstable wacko and it might definately be time to move into a different house...with a whole 'nother set of problems. What to do?

So back to my dad...when I told him a few weeks ago, if the dogs continued to bark so early in the morning, Kris was going to go over and talk to him about it. Which is when my dad said "I hope your neighbor doesn't shoot him". I laughed and said "oh, please dad"...more proof my dad is a wise man.