So we’re a few feet short of a totem pole but Ayla decided she needed to sit on this tree stump over the weekend and we were happy we had the camera handy. She generally will leave long before we have it in our hand or start moving around as soon as we take aim. Maybe it’s the flash she doesn’t like…or maybe she goes with the old belief that having your picture taken steals a portion of your soul 😉


She actually gets up on things like this all the time. She thinks she belongs on our dining table and any table that is set up outside. She seems to love sitting on these tree stumps and we have a few of them…

Maybe she’s part cat? Perhaps she’s seen them sitting on furniture and things like that and she thinks she should be doing the same? I mean she is the ruler of the house, right? (She shouldn’t kid herself – we all know the cats rule here.)

But she really does love to climb. Log bridges, rocks, hiking paths – she loves all that kind of stuff. It’s really great for us since we go rock climbing and need her to be able to hike in a bit sometimes…but she often ends up running ahead of us which has nearly injured us a few times lol.