It's been a week, and it's not over yet.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

Two nights ago. Actual color; no filters or editing. And no, it's not a "buck moon" in any tradition I've ever heard of. For my people, it's the Berry Moon, or for my cousins further west of home, Halfway-Summer Moon. The weather people began by appropriating and moved to just making shit up.

It's been a week, and it's not over yet. I spent yesterday thinking it was Saturday, then the same again today. If I didn't have the daily NDN Silver posts to remind me, I'd never know what day it is anymore. But I have pushed it for too many weeks now on too many fronts, and the crash came yesterday. No idea how long it will last; with autoimmune flares, there's no way to tell. I do know that I'm on Day 4 of a migraine, and it's the worst yet, so if today's posts are riddled with typos you'll know why; I can barely see.

The good news is that y'all funded Frank's Internet access in full yesterday, and it did clear our bank this morning.  Wings cashed it out and put almost $1,300 right into his hands. He said he was heading straight to the telecom place to get on the install list.

The not-so-good news is that this week has been hellishly expensive for us, with more to come. Thanks to the earth-moving costs (stuff that's been in the works for a while but we could only now make schedules align, for the purposes of preventing more erosion and keeping the floppy-eared monsters from tunneling under the fence) and the annual chimney-cleaning costs, we're $800 [cash] lighter in the wallet than we were yesterday morning. The electrician never showed, so no idea yet what that's gonna set us back, but we need a functional generator given the constant outages here anymore. I also have to make a gigantic expenditure on a certain type of silver for one of Wings's projects, an honor gift, and right now, I don't have it. I have no choice but to cancel my pain therapy appointment for me next week, and I'm not sure when I can reschedule; as of this month, my Patreon is down by $300, and I don't expect to be able to make that up, given that everyone else is also in tough straits courtesy of the pandemic and this crappy economy (which would not have been nearly so crappy if they'd done the right thing in the first place and locked down to prevent pandemic spread and mutation, but they'd rather control employees' every moment and move just on authoritarian principle). So it's back to flogging sales as constantly as possible. Wings has several other new pieces in the works, and I'll have one of them for you later today (should've had it last night, but the flare and my migraine and fatigue levels made that kind of thinking impossible). It's a cuff, and it's pricey but it's also amazing. As to the rest, given our workload this week even now, I don't know when they'll be finished and ready to post. I need more time, more hours in the day, fewer interruptions, and I know I'm not going to get any of them, but anyway, all the links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder and the Gorilla tape);
• 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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