Not the right weather for February first.

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A few more elk tracks on the north side last night [or, more likely the early hours of this morning]. You can see the lanes they made in the snow just beyond the ProPanel fence. There's still plenty of snow on the ground, albeit less than half of the total accumulation.  It hit something like 46 yesterday, and it's up over 50 today, so it's melting fast. Melting fast on the peaks, too.

Not the right weather for February first.

We're supposed to hit 55 tomorrow and 56 Monday, but if we're already near that now, my guess is it'll make it up to the 60s. That's not good [and that's an understatement if ever there were one]. But everything else seems to fall into the "not good" category right now, so why should this be any different, I suppose . . . ? There is a cop, complete with open looting, occurring right now, and no one with the possible exception of Ron Wyden is doing a damn thing about it. Congress is worse than useless; they're actively enabling all of this, so that they can be "collegial."

You know what's not "collegial?" Enabling a complete fascist takeover while people die.

It's bleeding over into everything. The USAID.gov site no longer exists. Elon musk has his people wading through everyone's Social Security numbers and more right this very moment.  Reportedly, their stupid fucking [faux] government efficiency agency [I refuse to use that little Nazi shit's favorite acronym] has minors wandering around on the payroll. And where is Congress? Oh, that's right: Voting to confirm more fascists.

Meanwhile, I have to worry about our communities, about our relatives. [both of whom are disproportionately affected by this illegal "funding suspension"] . . . and about us. Last year was indescribably bad on pretty much every single front, especially sales. This year, already a month into it, and it's not appreciably better. I have GOT to make some sales, since we've had only one so far in this new year. It takes at least one sale a week [sometimes more] just for us to break even on the year, and last year? We didn't even do half that. We're going to have to replace the well pressure pump, without question. Taxes are coming. My laptop apparently will have to wait yet another year [assuming I can keep this alive that long, which I can't assume for a moment, actually]. So now would still be a good time to buy. TONS of new and fabulous work on the site, and tons more on the way, too. But I've got to sell something, for the love of all that's holy. I won't survive another awful year like last year. Every day I wake up to pain that was worse than the day before. I also wonder what will happen to us if it gets so bad that I can't even do this much every day. Lately, that day is seeming like it's maybe not so far off now, and that scares the hell out of me.

Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one far worse than the last, we urgently need to begin 2025 on a better footing before taxes take every cent, so please share all of the links. 

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