Everything's struggling right now.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

Rainwater. We collect it in everything: rain barrels, empty wheelbarrow, whatever's available. That was what filled the old wheelbarrow by yesterday afternoon (from Saturday night through yesterday), and it all went to the struggling trees.

Everything's struggling right now.

Yeah, us, too. Not enough time, too much to do, and not enough resources with which to do it all. Wings should be taking it easy, his only work the animals and his art. Instead, he's spending full workdays on the earth and trees and plants, because if he doesn't, the land will die. But here we are, and the colonizer population continues to make everything worse. After July 1st? The new variant is going to start laying waste to populations once more. And we, and the land, need to stay safe.

We have another hard week ahead. The medical stuff this week is not mine but his, and it's not acute, it's long-scheduled, but it's a burden for him all the same. And it's more time that neither of us can spend on income generation, and the expenses keep mounting.

In addition to paying all of the medical people for all of it, there were vet and farrier Thursday, chimney cleaners Friday, and vehicle insurance and quarterly taxes within the next two weeks, and of course all the usual monthly bills and expenses. And I have no idea how to cover it all, given that I just shelled out more than $1,700 cash four days ago on the imaging. I'm also down 3-4 Patreon patrons since May 1st, which puts a BIG dent in what covers our monthly bills. And as of July 1st, I am having to stop posting every single day on Patreon, because I don't have the time and my health can't take it, so I expect to lose more. And my Patreon is what pays our utilities and other monthly bills, so, yes, I'm worried. I'm also exhausted after the last week, and barely functional, so here we are.

But as I said, Wings will have several new pieces out soon, too, possibly as early as tomorrow or mid-week: at least one major necklace posted last week here, and a minimum of four new Warrior Woman (three actually; one's already sold) and three new Pueblo pins (those last three, with a very cool new twist, and the third one will likely be done today). I posted the first two Pueblo pins last week; one has already sold, but you can see the other here. Seriously, go check out the necklace; it's incredible.

I'm skipping all the rest of it because I'm tired constantly, and frankly I don't have the focus right now for anything else. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are LaminaSaver for Miika [she's set until August] coffee & metal/glass/dishwasher cleaners);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to make up this staggering outlay somehow. There's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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