New guests.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

These are the new guests.

Yup. Seven of 'em.

That's mostly what Wings has been working on all week, helping our b-i-l get the fence finished off and get their water set up and whatever else. Why? Because where they wree, there's no water. That's what a 1200-year drought does. 

Most of the week's been a total loss as far as getting anything accomplished; today, we had to run five errands, some long overdue, and one of them I couldn't even complete because the federal government prefers disabled folks with severe pain to die rather than get proper treatment. If you think that's an exaggeration, I suggest you try living with severe full-body pain every second of every day of your life and deal every single goddamn month with the kind of runaround they insist on, under penalty of prison time, to get a too-small amount of the one and only medication that even begins to take the edge off it, all because of their bullshit Nancy Reagan-esque "anti-drug" nonsense that is quite literally killing people.

And the next few days are going to be even more harried and hard to navigate, and it's going to be made worse by the winds forecast for this weekend, and the fires will rage out of control even more. And still we're stuck in this same patter of nonsense, held hostage by colonial politicians and agencies.

Sometimes I do wonder if it's worth it.

Despite all of that, and a bunch of other colonizer nonsense too, we were blessed last weekend to make a really good sale, and so we'll be able to cover the most urgent expenses in the weeks to come. But I'm still 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. 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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