I'm beat.

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We have not had that kind of rain in a very, very long time. It began in the dark hours, probably between 3 and 4 AM, and continued without stopping until well after dark, around 10:30 PM or so. It was a soft, slow, steady rain, and by the end, not much heavier than a mist, but the land is certainly feeling a little better today. Today, though, is hot and humid, and I've just come indoors from dealing with Miskwaki and Miika, and all that the vet and farrier entail.

The vet was late, held over on an earlier call (which has happened with us enough, certainly; can't blame anyone for that), so the farrier did Miskwaki first, and actually was able to get Miika's hind feet done without the vet's help. Forefeet, though, required the anesthetic. And she's put on more weight, despite our best efforts to keep her intake down, and that's bad for her feet, although she did seem to have a little live sole in all the new growth. The damage done to her before she got to us is incalculable.

So anyway, now I'm hot and dusty and sticky and tired and sore, and I stink of horseshit, and I still have to deal with other chores before I can take another shower, and then there's dinner and all my other work to worry about, and and and . . . . I'm beat.

And I still need to bring in more sales. I'm canceling my ketamine therapy scheduled for next week; we have scrips to pay for and our next installment on taxes, and July is when my Patreon takes a big dive income-wise. So we need to make sales consistently, always [and especially now that I've just shelled out in cash for all the bills for our second-most expensive month of the year, plus a bunch of costly medical stuff, all to the tune of the medium-high four figures. Yes, all in cash]. Oh, and I'll also have two new works by Wings later this evening, one a silver cuf and the other a pair of silver hoops.

So 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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