I have been struggling with the garden all year and finally it's starting to bear fruit, er, eh, vegetables.
This week I pulled about a dozen pieces of squash and 4 tomatos. I ate one of the tomatos and boy was it good. I left 2 in the fresh vegetable bowl and had 1 left on the vine. I left the house to run some errands.
When I got home and went to fix dinner I looked for the tomatos and they were GONE. I said to myself "that is strange, I wonder if the housekeeper grabbed them when she left when I was gone". ( I have a very liberal "open garden" policy around my house) I thought surely if there were 2 she would have left me 1. I scratched my head and thought nothing of it.
Yesterday I pulled the 4th tomato and set it into the vegtable bowl along with a monster cucumber and some lesser ones, then once again left to run some errands. Sure enough when I got home the tomato was once again gone. This time there was no housekeeper, no contractors, no one obvious to point the finger at. Further investigation found several cucumbers missing as well. Hunting around the house revealed the mostly intact remains of the missing cucs. Aha!
Shasha, my Rhodesian Ridgeback spent the rest of the evening burping. Mystery solved. Who would have thought dogs liked fresh tomatos? Now - will my dogs start raiding the garden? I will let you know.
But JUST IN CASE this pair of red headed miscreant tomato theives decide to visit your tomato patch, here is their crimestoppers mug shot. Gus even looks guilty doesn't he?
LOL! My black lab will eat onions, but she doesn't go so far as to steal veggies--yet!
Posted by: lainie | June 25, 2006 at 12:18 PM