This week was full -

I traveled for work a few days and Craig had some dental work done 

and we worked on projects around the house - 

He used every free moment to give Wendell a good wax and 

I made batch after batch of jelly -

It's really not hard to do once you have the berries juiced...

It just takes a little time -

And I decided it was [past] time to burn off three rubbish piles we had up near the garden - I'd love to be able to mow that area and have it debris free. So, with Craig's help we moved a stack of old windows that we'd bought years ago with some project of mine in mind and started a fire in all three piles - turns out just one really caught up so I spent most of the day feeding the stuff from the other two into it - hot nasty work - but I got it done. 

 

This is how it looked at the end of the day.

Yay.

The only other real close-to-home news I have to share is that 

we've put the tiny dog on a strict beauty diet - 

We've noticed that these last few weeks her fur has changed dramatically - 

I've read that a long-haired chihuahua's coat doesn't fully come in until they're 

a couple of years old and so attributed it to that - 

But her fur is just not looking healthy... 

so she's started on a two week test of food 

guaranteed to produce a more lovely coat. 

And we've committed to not giving her ANY human foods during this period of time... 

although I did see Craig sneak her a couple of pieces of apple this weekend. 

[Yes. She eats it.]