Dirtball.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

She looks so innocent. She's a dirtball, and an absolute monster, and she has us both wrapped around those paws. All three dogs are like canine versions of PigPen now, kicking up a cloud of dust around them wherever they go.

Today started out hazy, but it's beautiful and clear at the moment; the wind direction has shifted yet again, and is blowing the smoke away from us. I'm grateful, because my inflammatory response is in overdrive already courtesy of yesterday's COVID booster, and it really doesn't need anything else to aggravate it. Wings is handling his pretty well, but I feel like I got run over by a Mack truck (which, I guess, is only to be expected with multiple autoimmune disease, but it still sucks). At least it all went smoothly yesterday, and we got to see our niece in the process, because she works at IHS and since she came in while we were there, she handled all our paperwork personally. [And she looks every bit as beautiful as her spirit is.]

When we got home yesterday, Wings went right to work on. the land, walking the fenceline for D's horses, edging more trees, a dozen other things, and he's doing more today. As I said yesterday, right now the land has to be our focus, in the hope that we can save what remains and also be able to plant this year, but sometimes it feels like a very faint hope.

Meanwhile, the IRS doesn't care, nor do any of the other billing agents, so I still have to make some sales. Wings did finish the second collection in the next round of his "Elementals" series on Sunday, this one the "Air" set for spring, and I did manage to get it posted late that same day. You can see it here. We'll need to make consistent sales all year to cover the medical stuff, (I just got another unexpected bill for another ~$360 I wasn't told about, and now, I haven't had the endless amounts of time it takes to track down this nonsense, but I suspect I'll have to pay it) but mostly to cover all the four-figure payments the feds are taking, one of which I'll have to take care of this week. A couple of sales would be really useful right now. 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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