Hope is a stubborn thing.

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Yesterday morning.  The haze stuck around most of the day, and the thunderheads built up fast, but produced nothing. Today's thunderhead collection is far more vast, already higher, broader, and heavier, and . . . well, hope is a stubborn thing.

On every front.

It has been a hellishly expensive week already, with the hay for the additional seven horses, the $550 out of pocket Wednesday for my first treatment, and the tax payments still to be handled this week and next.  All of it? In cash.

My pain levels haven't changed objectively, I don't think, but the degree to which they occupy the forefront of my brain has (for the moment, anyway), so the drug therapy is doing something. Which means that I need to keep bringing in enough to cover it [and the horses, and the taxes, and and and and]. Some sales this week and next would go a long way on all of that; as I said, hope is a stubborn thing. [Oh, and I'll have a new cuff this afternoon; he finished it yesterday, but I was too far behind to get it uploaded and the description written and sent viral.]

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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