Haunting.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

That's not actually taken through a window or door; it's a shot of the [partially dead and dying] aspens framed between the posts that hold up the deck. It's a cool image, but a haunting one, too. The constant worry about what this year's weather/climate will bring is inescapable.

There are other constant worries, too, of course. This murderously mismanaged pandemic, for one. It's going to torch Wings's knee-replacement surgery for the third year in a row. The pandemic is getting much worse here, and yet people are more lax than ever, so all we can do is try to isolate as much as possible. No one in any kind of authority is going to do the bare minimum, so that means withdrawal as much a humanly possible.

But the bill collectors don't care, and the IRS is going to want its thieving share shortly, so I still have to make sales. Of course, I need to make sales anyway; this is our most expensive month of the year anyway (followed very closely by July, and that's not even counting April, which is tax month, in this). So while we had a far better holiday sales season than I could ever have hoped, we still have to keep the cycle going. This is our livelihood, after all, and there's a lot of expense ahead, medical and otherwise (and this has to be the year the drill the well because there's no other option at this point; "first thing," indeed). It's a twelve-hundred-year drought, and it's killing everything.

So, as always, it comes back to that: more sales. A lot more, because we have two years' worth of a shattered pandemic economy to make up for, by which I mean we need to gain more ground ourselves financially to be able to be sure of making it through the winter and the rest of the year. I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come, plus two brand new works later today. If I could sell one of the big works, like the belt, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. Which means that I'll be stepping back significantly in terms of my online presence, because there's just too much else to do, and I am no longer well enough to maintain the kind of pace I once did.

So, since we have to continue to make sales, links are here, and there's new work up today, with more to come this week:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders);
• 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 cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through twelve whole months of a new year, plus put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring. And there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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