A bit ironic.

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Mr. Tanager brought Mrs. Tanager to see us yesterday morning. Good to know we have a mated pair. A bit ironic, though; they wait until the temperatures are more summer-like, and ours right now are anything but that; it's getting down into the forties and even the low thirties at night, and these high winds make it seem colder than it is.

Meanwhile, I have to bring in more sales, because things are coming due this week and the next two, and it's going to be hellishly expensive. I posted Wings's two new pairs of silverwork earrings yesterday, here. A slight correction to the onyx pair: That is in fact fire opal, not amber (and speaking of ironic, I am CRUSHED, because those he had set aside to make something for me, but in a bout of rearranging, mistook them for amber and put them in with those cabs). So whomever buys them, just know you're getting my stones in them, LOL.

But more importantly: We have two four-figure payments due this week and next (one our second payment on this year's taxes; the other our second-quarter prepayment on next year's). On the first, I have to come up with $500 cash (plus tax, etc.) for the first of my medical treatments for pain. The newest in Wings's Elementals series is up as of last night, plus gorgeous new earrings and a new cuff last week, and the earrings described above are the ones I mentioned yesterday would be coming shortly. A couple of good sales (or a bunch of small ones) would be really useful right now. [And by "useful," I mean urgently, desperately needed.]

Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder, the Thermacell lanterns [the flies are already out, so the mosquitoes won't be far behind], and the liquid soaps, which we can't get locally but prevent our hands from cracking and bleeding given that we're forced to wash them fifty times a day);
• 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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