While Harley remains enamored of Lunch On A Skewer, and totally in love with breakfast, dinner has become less and less interesting to him. We give him a plate, but usually he pretty much ignores it and nags us until Bruce caves in and brings him over to the table, where he turns into Helen Keller before Anne Sullivan taught her some manners. Cheese, corn, and the occasional green bean get eaten, and everything else gets tossed out of his way. Bruce thinks this is cute, and important flock behavior. Me: not so much. So the moment something gets tossed to the floor I bring him over to his tree, and give him dessert. And yeah, that's another story, so we'll just leave it at that.

At any rate, in the midst of this waning interest in dinner, these past few days the humans in the house haven't exactly been eating dinner, and certainly not at our usual schedule. So we put a plate of food in front of Harley, he almost immediately ignores it (perhaps because we're not nearby eating ourselves), and starts demanding dessert.

Since Lunch On A Skewer has been going over so well — I should say, Harley loves Lunch On A Skewer, he goes crazy for Lunch On A Skewer, he nags for Lunch On A Skewer — tonight I decided to scoop his untouched dinner into a coffee filter and put it on a skewer.

Success! He ate a cherry tomato and then he emptied the filter of all the food. You know, dropping most of it on the floor. But still. And he even waited awhile before he started nagging me for dessert. Siiiiiiiigh. Not sure what the future will bring, it'll depend a bit on Bruce and my eating schedule, I suppose. And Harley's weight is starting to creep up, so we'll have to figure out how to keep that in check. But so far, I'll call it a success.

This photo is yesterday's lunch:

Our cherry tomato plant has produced two fruits so far. Harley has now eaten destroyed both of them.