A little rain last night. First day of fall here. Sales and subscribers badly needed, and shares, too.

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Yesterday's storm. It stopped overhead, wrapping us all the way around on all sides. The world was pale gray, all the way to the ground, something we only get in the winter with snow. Of course, there was snow, up on the Spoonbowl. but down here, it was several hours of soft, steady rain, not enough to put a dent in the drought, but enough to revive the land for a bit, at least. There's a small amount of standing water in the main ditch — nothing that's flowed down from the river, just what couldn't soak in from last night's rain. The pups love it, of course. First day of fall here, though; the wind is distinctly autumnal, and the trees are all going gold, with the leaves falling around us already. 

Today has been . . . hmm.  Someone who was supposed to be here never showed, so Wings went in to the feed store, and of course, he showed up two hours late. I saw him only when he was driving away from the gate. It's fine; it was stuff for him, not for us. Then someone else shows up looking for a different address and instead of getting out, she lays on the horn over and over. Manners are for suckers, I guess.

Some things never change, though. So much to do, so much physical pain, so little time, and so much grief from the bill collectors, constantly. Like I said yesterday, I feel like I do when I have a mono flare — no energy whatsoever, and no amount of sleep fixes it. This year has done a number on me physically, and nothing I do seems to get me caught up again. If this is my new normal, I don't know how I get anything done. Neither the pain nor the fatigue will let go even the littlest bit, and I don't know where to go from here. The rest is cut-and-paste because I truly don't have the energy for anything more. We need sales, I need subscribers, we need to bring in some scratch badly. Here are the links and a request to share them:

• 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);
• Amazon wishlist, which mostly consists of animal and household stuff;
• 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).

I had said that I'd really like to raise another $500 in subscriptions before July is out, just to have a little more to throw to the medical wolves that are constantly at my throat. If I could hit that by the end of the month, I could pay off another bill. If we could sell today's featured work (in the post below this), I could pay off another one and put a little toward a third. The hounding never ends, either, and the stress is not helping with the cardio stuff. It's bad; I'm not going to go into detail just how bad, but it's compromising my health even more than what it's been. Now, we've got a lot more that needs to be done, too, and I'm damned if I know how. The truck was more than enough to throw a wrench in the works (and that's still unfixed, for the most part, given that just the one part is more than $1,200, so . . . ), but there's more medical stuff in the cards for me eventually, even though there's no affording it now. So please, please share the links. Thanks to everyone for the prayers and kind words and other help for Shade. I know she was better off for it, and I know she appreciated that. Miskwaki, too, and now his new girl, who never knew how good life could be until now.

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