A little rain and a new bird. Subscribers, sales, and shares still needed.

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At long, LONG last, we got some rain last night. We thought we might have a twister beforehand, too, but fortunately, the weather spun itself out and settled down to a nice, soft, soaking rain for a couple of hours, with some periods of sprinkles thereafter. There's a possibility of more today, and I hope this means that our monsoon season is going to producing early and often.

Even this small amount of moisture has made the earth here spring back to life. Everything's a little greener, a little brighter; the honeysuckle began to bloom this morning. And apparently, the winds washed this little one up here, and it's been happily playing hide-and-seek among the red willows on the west side of the house. As nearly as I can tell, the new bird is an orange-crowned warbler, one only known to make its way here in summer or during migration. "Known" being theoretical; neither of us has ever seen one here before, as far as we can remember. You'll have to click on the image to get a half-way decent look; enlarge it and you'll see the details and color better.

Speaking of new birds and making it rain, my first monthly goal for my Patreon is fully funded on a NET basis! (And thank you, thank you, to the person who made it possible.) That's about a tenth of one hospital bill (not said hospital's doctor's bills, just the overnight stay and so forth) that I can pay out on June 5th or so. Still, it's sales and Patreon subscribers that keep us going (and keep me paying down this massive medical debt load). I've put a hold on any more testing (no matter how much I need it, and I do, desperately, but it's expensive) until I get some of this paid off, because the stress of that hanging over my head is killing me as surely as anything else. So please continue to share the links:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds);
• Wings's site, for sales, with new items posted;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount; something over $300 for Wings last week, to say nothing of all my own);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of supplies for half-feral puppies;
• 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).

As always, I have more writing, more editing, and more general work to do, and I have to get back on it (at the moment, again, that which falls into the "general work" category has to come first). Thank you to everyone. I know I owe replies to a bunch of you, and other stuff, too. This week is not starting off auspiciously for getting caught up, but I'm doing my best.

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