Up to five starving, abused dogs eating here now. Very bad weather on the way. Sales and shares also very badly needed.

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Coyote and Crow, chubby, healthy, happy, and having made themselves completely at home. They remind me of a young Grif and Lilith, Raven and She-Wolf.

They practically live here now. Even Cricket, the other little black one (who is their brother, BTW, not sister), is mostly keeping his tail up and wagging now. Cricket, is the one on the far right in the photo below — still slightly skinny, but growing fast.

The one on the left is another matter.

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If he's not fully grown, he's close. Clearly abused. Terrified. And all bones. I won't show you the close-up, and you should thank me for it. He also has a not-really-healed gash on the inner left hind thigh, and his tail is perpetually up against his stomach. he appears to be a combo of red Australian heeler, pit bull, and whippet, and he has an amber left eye and an ice-blue right one. He's beautiful, scared, and starved almost to death. He was so grateful to Wings for feeding him, and so terrified. There's also a chow puppy that comes over with them now, so we're up to five starving, abused dogs that are getting their meals (and affection) here.

And sometimes, I hate people.

I don't have the patience to deal with anything else in this space tonight. I also have a long couple of days ahead of me, unless the weather is so bad as to keep us housebound (snow and high winds are supposed to be on the way right now, with gusts of 60 to 65 mph, which explains why my body feels so horrible). The rest is cut-and-paste. 

For now, we still need sales, which means we need shares. Badly. Again, if you're thinking about donating, DON'T. Give it to Bobby to help get Don Feliberto back into a real home. Here's the latest update. We know what it's like not to have one; we have one now, and donations need to go there to get this elder safe again. I posted a second piece at my other site a couple of nights ago about Bobby's efforts in Puerto Rico, including his adoption of Don Feliberto to get this abandoned elder into safe space again. That will tell you what he's up against, and my e-mail's in my Blogger profile here (or you can DM at Twitter/FB); hit me up for his addresses if you want to contribute, either cash (most needed) or household and other items, some of which you can purchase outright via the Amazon Wishlist Bobby's set up here. He's added a bunch of new items, all badly needed, and I can testify to the fact that need for the power cords, the tools, and the solar lights and equipment is probably exigent at this point. That said, when you're in a situation like Don Feliberto is, it's amazing how wonderful clean clothes and good coffee can make you feel, too.

What we need are SALES. Please. Spread the word. Valentine's Day's gone, but people have birthdays, anniversaries, I-love-you days; there'll be other holidays and seasons coming up before you know it. Please spread all of our links around on FB and Twitter and other social media, via e-mail and word-of-mouth, to your family and friends and colleagues and whoever. The O2 issue is now solved, but there are all the ongoing regular expenses, the astronomical medical expenses, and of course, someday we'd like to be able to get the house finished. I have no hope of that happening anytime soon; I don't know how we're going to get through the rest of this winter, given current circumstances. So here are the links: 

• Tonight's post elsewhere (the one sure gift of every day);
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to She-Wolf's & my medical bills);
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. There are some things left on both registries that I thought by now I might be able just to buy outright, but medical bills (mine and She-Wolf's both) have to come first.

I've been trying to find some sort of accommodation with this oh-my-god-you're-going-to-die thing that keeps happening, which is to say, every time it crops up, I smack it ruthlessly back down and force myself to sit and breathe through it. It's not working. I'm doing it regardless, but these recent episodes are terrifying. We need, also, to get free of some of this crushing stress, and I don't see that happening as long as I have to spend every day scrabbling (mostly unsuccessfully) for whatever sales we can make. Closure's imminent, and I see no way to get through it now. In spite of it all, though, thanks, everybody, from both of us, for everything. I don't know about tomorrow, but at least today I got to see the dawn, and I got to play with puppies.



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