Wilma thought she was playing in the snow yesterday. Obviously it isn\u2019t snow, but it doesn\u2019t hurt to use your imagination once in a while. We can\u2019t remember ever having so many seeds from the tree making the whole garden white before. Our Mistress was doing some reading and thinks that maybe the tree hasn\u2019t been pollinated in previous years, but that doesn\u2019t make complete sense as it always tries to grow loads more little trees. We do now know our trees are female if nothing else. The biggest problem is that when our Mistress tried to work in the summerhouse so we could have more time outdoors we kept making it all whirl around and go inside to make her sneeze. We didn\u2019t do it deliberately, it was just one of those things which couldn\u2019t be helped.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Six years earlier the garden was white for a completely different reason. This is May 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday the garden disappeared under a layer of white. It didn\u2019t snow but it hailed for so long that it looked like a winter scene and it thundered too. More to the point there was a big flash of lightning and my Mistress wasn\u2019t very happy. I always thought the humans were supposed to look after the dogs rather than the other way round!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I decided to look back to when Shadow was a puppy. Mum had completely forgotten how naughty she was, which is perhaps as well. This was in 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n It took a little bit of time for my Mistress to wake up to the noises coming from the hall and realise that Shadow had run off with a shoe. I can honestly say that I don\u2019t know what it is about dogs and shoes. I\u2019ve never had the least inclination to run off with or chew on anyone\u2019s shoes. With Shadow it is an altogether different matter. She\u2019ll even have a go if the person is still wearing them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well that\u2019s all from me for today. Have a lovely Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wilma is having a Flashback to Snow, which seems odd in the middle of May, but she does miss it. She’s a mountain dog.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,50,12,27,93],"class_list":["post-17403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","tag-gardening","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_7818-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhite Over<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Shoes<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n