I don't know what to do anymore.

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So I guess 51 degrees yesterday wasn't enough? Today it's 52. Thirty degrees too warm by any measure, everything thawing, and it feels like the last week of April, not the middle of January. People just don't grasp what it means to have the climate gallop to 30 degrees to warm in less than a decade. We're at 7,500 feet, FFS.

This is dangerous.

Of course they say snow tomorrow, and it'll probably happen, given the lenticular clouds now forming fast and the way the birds have been gathering all day. But it'll be a dusting, nothing to speak of, and then there's another warming trend for next week. I'm really afraid we won't be able to plant again this year, because there won't be enough snowpack, snow, rain, or water.

No rain in the other sense either, and this week's outlay just got a whole lot worse. Between the insurance and utility bills, some of the business software/platform stuff, and . . . I can't even remember right now, something else, plus the horse vet and farrier work and the next round of septic pumping yesterday, and we were over $2K, but that's doubled now, courtesy of supplies, some materials he needed for the work he's doing in the studio now, and some mutual aid for family who need help, all out the door in cash this week alone. And we still have taxes upcoming. The leach field disaster. All the interim septic pumping between now and then. My Patreon is still $250 short, and we've made exactly one sale so far this year. And at some point, I've got to start thinking about mobility [meaning a power wheelchair] , since I'm having so much trouble being on my feet for any length of time. I'm tearing my hair out. I have got to make some sales, and . . . town was absolutely dead today. No traffic, vehicular or foot. This is starting to look like a very bad year for most folks here [save the rich colonizers who are turning it into the next Vail while killing it off], and I don't know what to do anymore.

The new necklace was posted Tuesday; another is in the works, as are some simple concha earrings [all of those items likely done tomorrow]. And also as always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are the liquid soaps and especially the vacuum, because mine has died a complete and ignominious death, and if I don't vacuum every single day, the dog hair takes over completely [and the dustbuster is just not cutting it]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site about a dozen all told over the last three weeks or so, cuffs and earrings and pins, plus the necklace and earrings to come. After such a grim 2023, we really need to get this year started off on a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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