I hope they make it.

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The smaller of the two fire maples has three branches with real buds on it. The larger one has none, and we've had no sap this year at all.

I hope they make it.

Highs in the 50s, but bitter cold with a ferocious north wind these days. Everything's drying up fast, and I don't know what our planting season will look like. That's if we get one; we still might not.

Everything's up in the air now, courtesy of climate catastrophe and unchecked pandemic, which is to say, courtesy of colonialism. The sense of existential dread never goes away now. I feel like we're always in some stage of grief, anticipatory or otherwise.

And the external pressures never let up. We got today's abslutely-necessary errands run, but I still have to make a few more sales before this week is out to make up for that 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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