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Mango is one awesome little dude. He did exceptionally well at Saturday’s training. That afternoon, he faced the scary doctor at the vet and took a shot like a man. And in the evening, he continued making us feel that we are making progress with his nail trimming. To acknowledge his awesomeness, we took him to the Sculpture Park on Sunday.

The weather wasn’t great but at least it wasn’t raining when we were at the park. There were lots of photo opportunities. Mango’s training was put into use as we commanded him to seat still and watch camera while taking pictures.

Previously during a trip to the Arboretum, Mango proved himself not a fan of water. This time was no exception. He approached the beach, saw the water, and was ready to leave.

We also used the park’s busy surrounding to train Mango to perform commands with distractions. For a 4-month pup, Mango did well with noises and pedestrians all around him.

Ktula and I had fun watching schools of salmon and unknown fish swimming by the shallow water under the deck.

Yesterday I took Mango out to the backyard to pee. Since I got some time to kill, I went check on the tomatoes. Behind layers of green leaves, I spotted a red tomato. Needless to say, I was very excited. I wasn’t sure if the tomato was ready to be picked, so carefully I reached in to get a close look. The moment I touched the tomato, it detached from the vine and fall into my hand.

I started looking for other red tomatoes but didn’t see any. Then I saw one already dropped and was lying on the pot soil. I had no idea how long that tomato had being there. It felt firm on the touch. So I rescued it out of the pot. Then I saw several holes on the tomato. And a slug caught in action, still munching away my tomato.

So really I only harvested one good tomato. There were tons of green ones but very few of them were turning red. Quite a few green one also growing out of my other type of tomato. I hope there’s still time for a second harvest this year.