Coyote and Crow on their first big vet adventure (they aren't happy with me, but they're safe). Also, subscribers, sales, shares badly needed now.

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Coyote and Crow have been out of surgery for almost two hours now. Both little girls got spayed this morning. Initially, we were going to try for Blue today, but she wasn't around (until five minutes ago, actually, which is really unusual for her), so we took Crow in instead. [They'll get their shots and deworming while there, too.] Ted was there today instead of Jeff (Ted owns the practice, and while Jeff handled She-Wolf's treatment, Ted was the one who came out a couple of weeks ago to help us send her on her journey home), and he told us to bring Coyote in today too, if we wanted, and he'd spay her at the same time. So both little ones are taken care of; they'll stay at the vet's over night, and we pick them up tomorrow when we take Blue in (or, failing that, one of the boys). 

Ted and his people are absolutely wonderful; they also have known us well for many years, and know our willingness to do the hard work with rescues and ferals. So they've agreed to do all of them with the rescue folks footing a big chunk of the cost, and they've also told us that if we're having trouble getting the others early in the morning, but can catch them in the afternoon, we can bring them in them and drop them off; they'll spend the night, and Ted will do the surgery in the morning This takes such a massive load off our shoulders right now that I can't even describe it. It may be that we're able to do each one on successive weekday mornings, but just knowing that we have the option if not is wonderful thing.

One thing we hadn't planned for was the impact on Cricket and Raven both. We thought, of course, that it would be only Crow this morning, and that she'd come home when we dropped Blue off tomorrow. Instead, the littermates are gone together, save Cricket, and the poor little dude is utterly bereft. He's trotting all over all the fields, sniffing, stopping to howl and cry, and he still won't let a human close to him. I did get him to eat half his food, at least, and I'm going to try to Benadryl him for purposes of catching him. But Rave . . . ! Raven is worried and sad, too. As much as the little monsters annoy him, he loves being their alpha, and now so soon after having lost his main girl, he thinks he's lost the two little girls, too. They'll have to stay indoors in my old Dane crate for the next week or so, so he'll have plenty of time to get sick of them again, though.

So much more to do today. Wings's follow-up for his BP is mid-afternoon; it should be much better this time around, since we adjusted his meds. It'll be a costly visit, though. At some point today, I have five new pieces to post, four of which are part of a collection, similar works in varying sizes and gauges of silver, all five of them rolled and milled ingot cuffs. I'll try to get them up before we leave again, but it may be this evening. These are simple, spare, elegant bracelets, all at lower price points than the elaborate stone-and-overlay styles, and I hope they sell fast, because things are brutal right now. 

I can't emphasize this enough; we need to bring in more scratch. We need to make sales; I need to bring in enough beyond that to free up Wings's studio time, of which he's had almost none for months now. I need subscribers to make this work, and I'm nowhere near hitting my first-level goal. It's not going to happen without help. I need folks to share the links. Not many times a day, just, you know, once every day or so. Endorsements and testimonials to the folks in your circles help, too. But I am at the end of my rope on the bills, and the pressure that has been sitting camped out in my chest since early November is now threatening to suffocate me completely. I mean that in literal terms, not figurative ones; the stress is aggravating my health so badly that the pain is a tangible thing. So please, please share the links:

• My new Patreon, The Interstices (Writing Between Worlds);
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to all of our medical bills, which continue to mount; another almost $400 for Wings this week);
• 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, as well as labor of a more physical sort, and I have to get back on it. Much gratitude to all of you, and please continue to share the links.

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