We have been planting posts and have quite a garden now!
These are about half the posts we will need for the house. The rest of the posts go in a running foundation, which would fill with rain water like a bathtub during rainy season. So we are currently doing other preparatory work while we wait for rainy season to be over. Here comes another shipment of posts ready to be welded together:
I wanted to title this post "Making it through a pandemic with dogs for company," but that was too long! We are staying at home in Chichicastenango every day of the week but one, when Michael goes shopping. Veronica and I (Heather/Erica) go with him and wait in the car. It isn't a very social outing, but at least we get out of the house! During the long days at home, it is nice to have a dog's company!
On the other hand, having a dog around can also be hilarious, as our other dog Dorado has demonstrated recently. We had been separating out our burnable trash into a bucket with an easily removable lid, which Dorado got into easily.
I assured my family that the other trash cans, where we separate the food from other items, would be harder to get into because the dog's head would get trapped... I went outside for two minutes and came back in to this scene! Hahaha. Guess it wasn't such a problem after all!
Our trash cans, by the way, are now up on plastic tables!