We entertained at the farm this weekend for the first time. Sure, we had hubby’s parents over the first weekend we were here and dined with them in the house, but it’s not the same when you’re not cooking yourself. So this weekend, a friend of ours came over and we grilled a few Angus steaks and celebrated our new home, this first night of entertaining and the fact that we hadn’t really been able to spend much time with our friend for the past year since she’s been finishing up college and we’ve been busy with Ayla and the new house.
For the most part, Ayla was a perfect angel. We were amused that even though we had vacuumed about 15 minutes before our friend arrived, there were actually Newf tumbleweeds roaming around the kitchen 20 minutes after she’d arrived. Thankfully she has two dogs herself so she’s not grossed out by it all but we were rather shocked at how quickly the stuff piles up. Apparently we’ll be spending some serious time in the next few days on brushing out her baby coat which she currently seems to be shedding.
After we’d all finished dinner, we were just sitting around and relaxing with most of our plates still on the table. When I bought the steaks, they were in a four-pack and we decided to go ahead and grill all of them at once and would decide what to do with the last steak later on. I come from the South and we always go with the mentality that you can never have too much food on the table, just not enough appetite. At one point, we all went outside so the smokers could have their nicotine fix and completely forgot about that remaining steak. But we really didn’t need to worry. Ayla gobbled it down in record time and by the time we thought about it, it was gone. We thought it might give her a bit of indigestion since it was seasoned a bit spicy but apparently not. We certainly won’t be having any dinner parties where she’s roaming freely unless we can get that behavior curbed…which I’m guessing should really only take us until she’s either not agile enough to counter surf anymore…or she’s gone to the Rainbow Bridge. 😉
