The kind of rain we need.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

Yet another of Wings's many projects around the place, in between the silverwork and trying to save the land (although this actually relates to both, in a way). This used to be the trunk that held his outdoor vise, the larger one, that he uses to clamp big pieces securely when he needs to cut, hammer, file, or grind them by hand. But it was always uneven, and therefore unstable, and so he switched it out with a small old table. He's been slowly hollowing out one side of it, to make it into a planter for me to use for flowers and herbs, in a context where we can control the soil quality and water supply, since the drought is making that mostly impossible in the ground now.

We got not a single drop yesterday, despite all the ruckus from the meteorologists. But today it began raining before dawn, and hasn't stopped — exactly the kind of nice, gentle, steady, soaking rain we need. Some of it is beginning to pool on the surface here and there, of course; it couldn't be otherwise in this kind of drought. But it will soak in later, and here, at least, we're unlikely to have any flooding (unlike in the burn scars on all sides).

Speaking of the kind of rain we need, I need to come up with the other variety — a lot, actually, especially with the vet and farrier coming tomorrow for Miika, and the chimney people in July. 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 one 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, cash].

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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