The raven knows. The creatures are mellow, at least, even if the bill collectors aren't. Sales badly needed, and subscribers and shares, too.

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The raven knows.

That's our injured raven girl, yesterday. If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you can see her damaged left foot. The talon that's hooked over the back edge of the 2X4 if from her right foot; the left is bent out of shape, withered, and accordioned up a bit, so she doesn't have any real weight on it. Behind that 2X4 is where I put her food, and as of this morning, she's fully internalized that. How do I know? Because I put her food there while I'm feeding the dogs (the grain box is where their kibble is kept, along with the horses' grains), walked away for a moment, and turned back to see her there already. She'd been watching me from someplace out of my line of sight (although she doesn't really worry about that much; she trusts me enough to sit out in the open, if at a remove of a healthy yard or two).

Horses are mellow today, dogs are mellow, everything seems better than yesterday. Odd, given that the eclipse is today and that usually winds them all up, but maybe everybody's just tired. I know we are. And except for Miika acing her vet visit, yesterday was just a horrible day all around. 

Today's fraught, too, of course; it can't be otherwise with 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. That 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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