Always on guard. Well, yes, I know Stormy looks like she's sleeping, but she'll be right them with them should somebody try to invade. The more interesting part of it is how BIG they've gotten. Stormy's still a lot smaller than Sunny, but I even mistake her for Cricket sometimes. Sunny? He's almost as big as Cricket now. And they are all SO bonded.
They're also adolescents in every sense of the word. About 2-3 weeks ago, Sunny's voice changed, and he has a big booming bark, deep and threatening, and he uses it any time he thinks something's slightly out of the norm. He's already a great watchdog, although Cricket has already had that covered. But it's good to have more than one.
I know what it's like to have to be always on guard. Now, the rest of the country is beginning to find out, too, albeit in a comparatively small way. Hasn't changed any colonial behavior, though. And that refusal to alter behavior is going to kill us. This state blasted past its earlier records by about 300 cases yesterday, a reported total of 1,082, which DOES NOT INCLUDE cases in city and county jails. We had 17 new reported cases here in Taos County, which is horrifying. And still the governor does nothing.
Also still, our prospects get worse by the day. At some point, this virus will take the action for them that our feckless and cowardly so-called "leaders" are too venal to take, and in the worst possible ways. We will have NO tourism, the economy will collapse entirely, and people will die. Meanwhile, I'm already buried under an avalanche of looming expenses, with no sales to cover them.
I'm scared. Our Web site hits are down by 60-70% daily now, and the pandemic is worsening here fast. In our tiny county of fewer than 33K people? We've had 93 new cases in the last 18 days; 64 or 65 of them in the last SEVEN. Several businesses are shut down, and it's not because of the weather; it's because everyone has to quarantine. It's going to get very much worse before it gets better, and at this point? I genuinely don't know how we make it. I have got to bring in some sales, and there's nothing. I need help.
It's no longer a question of winter coming; winter is HERE, and in a very big and dangerous way. It's a good thing, after months with no precipitation of any kind and the land dying literally, visibly, around us. We're warm and housed, but this on top of the pandemic? Is going to make things very much worse in the short term, and probably the longer term of what remains of fall and all of winter into spring, too.
I have to get us through the rest of the year safely. My next big thing is finding a way to cover Wings's aids, because this is one of those things that is urgent now. One sale of 3 grand would do it; whatever, I have to raise it, and so I'm going to be back to flogging sales daily, hard. I also have to cover Miika's hoof work, the hay, and more immediately, the plumbing.
My laptop is still slowly dying, as is my camera, both of which are integral parts of our work. I hope they make it through year's end, but they may not. The laptop is down to one working port, and if I lose that, I'm screwed. We cannot live without either one, because they are both necessary for our work at the most very basic level. And of course, I still need to figure out how to cover the ~$15K for drilling the well, so that maybe in future years, we won't be over this particular barrel. I have no idea how I'm going to do all this, but I do know that we need to make steady sales to survive. If you're in the market to buy, please consider us, because two episodes of nearly dying were more than enough, but this year is already damn near killing me, and I have to get us through into next year safely somehow, which means I have got to make sales somehow. It's all on me, and I can't do this alone. So please share the links, and if/when you're in the market for gorgeous, authentic, Spirit-infused Indigenous wearable art, Wings will have something perfect for you. The links are here:
It's still my birthday month, and the best gift I could have would be to make some steady sales, now, and in the days and weeks to come. Thanks.
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