Waiting on the rain; trying to beat the snow.

Photo copyright Aji, 2016; all rights reserved.

That's what we're doing right now. The weather map shows the leading edge of a sizeable system just reaching us. Of course, the guys have been off today, and will be off tomorrow, too, but come Monday, the weather becomes a factor again: We'll be down at least one, and possibly two members of the crew until Tuesday, and as Ned Stark would say, Winter is coming.

It is, you know. Fall's already here and then some. Most mornings, it's all the way up to 42 or 43 by sunrise, which tells me that we're getting down to 38-19 at night. The stands of aspens and cottonwoods across the road began turning yellow at the first of the months; there are sections of trees that are truly gold-colored now. 

In August.

All signs point to this being an early winter, and a hard one, which means that we need to be able to pay the crew to keep working as consistently as possible over the next few weeks. It looks like a lot of progress now, and it is, but there's a LOT more to go before this place can house anyone. Bond beam, support posts, vigas, second story, roof, windows and doors, interior walls/wiring/plumbing, all he necessary fixtures . . . AND a whole new septic system, relocated with a whole new leachfield.

That means we need shares of our YouCaring page. Daily. Shares via the widgets on it. Shares using the widget code from the purple box at the lower right-hand corner of the page. Shares that will post this:

Shares of Wings's site. Sales. Sales keep us going, and they also fund the house. Believe me, the amounts we've been raising are far from all that we've sunk into this project; they allow us to keep it going, but they're nowhere near enough. Our usual sales are the baseline, without which nothing else happens.

I'm going to be behind for a while. The days that I had set aside to get caught up were overtaken by events utterly beyond our control. The aftermath of it has wiped us both out, and it'll be a while before we're caught up physically and mentally, much less in the practical terms of our respective to-do lists. The change in the weather is exacerbating that, particularly for me; the sudden switch to cold and damp, interspersed with muggy heat, is playing hell with my autoimmune disease, and I'm not young enough just to bounce back anymore. Please know how grateful we are for all the help so many folks have given us, and please bear with me a while longer.

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