Deadly dry.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

Look at how deadly dry everything is.

No snow left. At all. It's far too early for that, but here we are. Those willows? I don't know if they're going to make it. Wings has been doing everything possible to save them for three years now, but . . . well, you can see for yourself.

When even the red willows are dying, you know we're in trouble.

And we're slated for six solid days of gale-force winds, with exactly zero percent chance of any precipitation. It's terrifying.

Meanwhile, the last two days have been a rush of errands that we needed to catch up, and a bunch of extremely costly expenses into the bargain. It's why I've been so late with the daily posts; everything always takes longer than you think it will, and I'm a lot slower than I was just last year. I'm increasingly disabled, and I can't work if I can't get the pain under control, or get back my ability to walk [mostly] unhindered. That's the point of the extremely costly therapy [$4,500, all told, and all cash]: rewiring my brain to lower my pain response and let my body start finding ways to heal a little. So we will still need to make steady, consistent sales over the course of the coming months to keep everything above water (or, maybe more accurately, above dry, arid, drought-ridden land). 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 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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