Last Saturday, we harvested 25 pounds of peaches from a tree in our new backyard…yes, 25 pounds. There would have actually been around 50 but many of them had already fallen to the ground because the tree actually broke due to so much weight from the fruit. So we brought all the peaches home with us in a basket and have are now trying to figure out just what we want to do with them. The basket has been sitting on the kitchen counter and I just realized this morning that Ayla has been stealing them. I saw her eating pieces of fruit yesterday and assumed that most of the time she had a plum from our current backyard. Many of them have fallen to the ground and she loves eating them. But I heard her toe nails on the counter this morning and her paw hit a glass which was beside the basket which really made me notice the crime. She came darting out of the kitchen when I told her to get down and I could see the peach peeking out of her lips. So much for hiding the evidence in those big, floppy things. Needless to say, the peach basket has now been moved to a safer location where she can’t feast on them all day.
This morning on our walk, Ayla was pretty wound up. She fought me all the way down the street (the usual M.O. these days when walking down the street although she rarely does it anywhere else…one for Newf.net of course) so I decided we would take the longer version of the walk because the sun was out for a change even though it’s still only about 50 degrees. She was running and jumping all over the place and has recently “learned” a new trick from one of the local dogs named Tommy. They were playing together the other day and Tommy jumped over a gully to get to the field on the other side. Now Ayla thinks this is the best fun she can have so she is jumping over just about every one we come across. 
Unfortunately she chose to jump over a very overgrown one this morning and ended up with parts of her covered in those terrible little green thistle things again. Apparently there is a new crop of them coming up and these she has today are at least twice the size of the old ones. So I will be giving a thorough brushing later today when she dries out a bit although she has already started an attempt to remove some of them.
Never a dull moment, right?
