Dead spots.

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Look closely at that tree. Virtually all of the pollen is concentrated at the top and the lower right. The rest of it remains mostly bare.

I took a long, hard look last night. We don't have a single aspen that does not have bare spots. That one up there? Is one of the two in the best shape.

Dead spots.

Some of them have far more that's bare [dead?] than alive.

Recent moisture notwithstanding, this drought is risking the lives of literally all of our trees. And I don't know how we fix it at this point.

Meanwhile, I'm have to make a few thousand dollars' worth of sales before this week is out to make up for a temporary glitch that has put the funds I was going to use to pay our taxes out of reach in time for the April 15th deadline. [The funds are there, I just probably won't be able to get them cleared in time to meet the tax deadline.] Add to that the fact that my Patreon is down by almost $100 this month, probably because folks are having to use that money to pay their own taxes, and it's a lot tighter than I expected it to be, so everything is about sales right now, and I'm going to need help to do it in this kind of timeframe. After that's done, then we can worry about how we're going to save the land. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder and the Thermacell lanterns; the flies are already out, so the mosquitoes won't be far behind);
• 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, Nah, we've given up on the well. No one's available to drill before the latter half of summer, and the tax burden means we would never be able to afford it anyway. But it's perhaps even more of a good time to make a purchase, because Uncle Sam is a vindictive colonizer, and my current stress levels about paying it all are off the charts. And there's lots of fabulous work, so please share all of the links. 

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