Emerging slowly.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

Even on the north side of the house where the sun never reaches, the world is emerging slowly from the snow now. We're in for a warming trend, and this was probably the last real storm we'll get for the season.

That's not good news.

It's been a week, and this week will be more of the same. There are all the usual stresses beyond a government trying to kill us all with COVID and World War III already under way. We also had our own mini-WWIII here yesterday, as the balance of power shifted among the dogs. Cricket and Sunny were growling at each other over a bone, and usually that's all the is too it, a lot of noise, no real bravery on either side. But yesterday, for whatever reason, Sunny decided he wasn't gonna take it, and in a flash he had Cricket pinned. You watch the change occurring, Sunny suddenly realizing that he's both bigger and stronger than his older brother. Stormy, meanwhile, was doing the grinning troll equivalent of a 12-year-old boy yelling "Fight! Fight!" on the playground at lunchtime. I had to break it up; the pups were consigned to the dog run, and we had to monitor everyone last night. Today, Sunny's feeling himself, all lord of the manor who can't be bothered to notice his brother. Until I show up and everybody gets reminded that in this pack, I'm the alpha, and so is Wings, and the dogs are all further down in the hierarchy.

But I'm sore today after dealing with it. And I have to figure out how to keep all the gears moving properly at all times. We are out nearly $700 cash just this week on medical stuff, and there will be more than $1,300 in cash costs next week as we pay for the horse vet and farrier for Miika and then for my own 6-months-overdue eye appointment. Which means that I really need to sell one, or both, of today's featured works, or something comparable, anyway. Trouble is, I can't even block out any time to chase sales.

Which reminds me, for my Patreon patrons: March and April are tax months here, and also medical appointment months, and I am going to be snowed under. I will not be doing daily postings for that period. I'll try to post as often as I can, but I can't in good conscience commit to every day (or every night, as the case may be) when I have all of this stuff hanging over my head. Things will lighten up in May, presumably.

And on top of all of that, I'm still trying desperately to get caught up on a bunch of the things I haven't been able to do these last three weeks, having been so sick with this godforsaken lupus flare. It's slowly easing a little each day now (never by enough, but at least there's a measurable difference now), so I'm trying my best to get things done. This week we have Miika's next vet/farrier visit and then my eye appointment [at long last]. The bad part is that they're back to back. So the next couple of weeks will have me on the run again. And there's always the need to keep the land alive, and its indigenous spirits, fragile and less so.

Among that list of things I need to do is still the need to make sales, and that new heart bracelet went up last week, here. It's gorgeous, and that stone is jut amazing. There's more in the pipeline, too, and it's incredible stuff. Links are here, and there's a lot of new work up, with more to come:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder and the Bissell vac);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

We're still hoping to put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring, too, so now's always a good time to make a purchase. And there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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