Obscuring the light.

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Still nothing on our dogs. I've wept more than I can remember in recent days. I don't know how we cope with losing them both at once, but it's getting harder and harder to maintain any real sense of hope. There's so much obscuring the light.

We thought 2019 was trash; 2020 is flatly apocalyptic, and it has the potential to get very much worse for us if we can't get this well drilled. And I'm SO far behind now. [But I did get another rejection, so there's that. Y'all really could use some work learning to right rejection e-mails, FFS.] But I've got to bring in thousands of dollars now and over the next two months, and I have no idea how to do this with the economy (and the world) in the shambles it is now. And I have no time today, so here's all the rest, and please, please share the links:

I have to shell out for first quarter taxes on Wednesday when my Patreon clears [no, I have not done this yet; I haven't had time to sit down until now, much less do anything else, and I don't even know whether it's cleared yet], have to come up with enough for all the other bills for the month, and have to come up with another quarterly tax payment by this time next month.

I also have to figure out how to fund the drilling of a new well in August, to the tune of $15K, probably, before we're done with it all, and I need to be able to pay for it before then to reserve a spot (because August is the first opening they have, and there's only one guy doing it here now).

I don't know what to do.

I've got to make sales, I've got to bring in the scratch, and I can't do it without buyers. I can't create money out of nothing. I can squeeze that stone until the world ends, and the only blood I'll get out of it will be from the damage to my hands. We're looking at no return to anything like a normal rate of sales for at least a year, probably more, and I don't know how at this point.

So please. The links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here;
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

Note: At this point, it's getting to be impossible for us to get some of the things we need without using Amazon. We haven't done so yet, but I suspect we're going to be stuck very soon. There are two new items on it that, with these rains, we now need desperately: both for mosquito control, because we know the mosquitoes in this state carry West Nile, and we've already lost one family member to that disease. Those are URGENT.  If you can find any of the items on wishlist elsewhere, we'd prefer you purchase there instead of with Amazon (there's even a wishlist function where you can note that it's been purchased somewhere else), but I we realize that they've managed to make themselves essentially indispensable, especially for rural/rez folks like us who are isolated at the best of times. And these are most surely not the best of times.

Please share everything. Thanks.

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