Not going anywhere.

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Wings brought these home for me yesterday: pink carnations, pink roses, pink lilies. Lilies are my favorites, and whenever the grocery store has some that he knows I'll like, he snaps them up. 

Speaking of flowers, we had to go into town today for his dentist's appointment, and it was about three hours before we were done. [Nothing emergent; this was scheduled for March of 2020 . . . you know, when the pandemic shut everything down.] Anyway, the dentist finally came back and was just about to start when someone interrupted; a satisfied patient was bringing her flowers. Wings told her to go get them, and when she got back, he mentioned that he brings me flowers regularly, and she said, "Welp, that's one way to get her to stick around, isn't it?" I pointed out that I had been here a long, long time already, and by now he knows I'm not going anywhere.

Too much work to do, LOL.

And speaking of that, there's a lot of work in progress right now, and the new cuff is done, and it's up here. It's . . . there aren't really words for it. Not for the work involved, and not for the power and beauty of the result. It really needs to be snapped up fast.

And I need to make some sales. Wings's work today had been paid for last year and stymied by the pandemic, so now it's just marking things off the list. But I have a lot more yet to come myself; Tuesday's blood draw set me back $260 cash on the spot, but I came home to an insta-e-mail advising that they would be billing me more (probably a LOT more) as the analyses are completed. I also need to come up with ~1,500 between now and next week for quarterly taxes and other bills, another ~$2,000 by the 21st for labs, biopsy, and path fees, and I've made exactly zero progress on any of it. I'm so far behind and I need to be able to work, but before I can focus on the labor, I need to cover bills, and I can't do it alone. I need to sell some of Wings's new work, but I can't make a sale to save my life, apparently.

The last two months have been hellaciously expensive, with all of the imaging and doctor's appointments I've had to pay for just to have them rule out something extremely nasty; what it IS has everyone stymied now, and it's likely going to cost even more to rule whatever that is in, but it has to be done. 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've had 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.

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. One thing: The mosquitoes are out in force now thanks to the rain, and as you know from the loss of Wings's nephew last year to West Nile, they can be deadly for folks like us. Wings has to spend an inordinate amount of time outdoors right now, and he needs to be able to take repellents with him that are not toxic, so I've added a bunch of them to the wishlist, and they are urgent, especially the 2nd and 4th items on the list. Links are here, but mostly? We need SALES, desperately:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are all the mosquito-prevention items, especially the portables and the patio-surface ones, because Wings can take them around the land with his as he works);
• 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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