This is why we stay home.

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Better the gray of clouds that don't rain than the smoke we've had here all day.

And it has been a fucking day. Starting with no sleep until after 6 AM [which translates to something less than two constantly-interrupted hours], and the need to be up and out the door because we had paperwork to take care of left over from last week, and had to go out of town to do it. That takes care of one aspect of the well tank; now, we just need to get the damn tank in and them out here to dig to replace it. [Well, it's a bit more complicated than that, but this was the biggest thing other than, you know, REPLACING THE FUCKING TANK.]

And the whole day has been one long heavy pall of smoke and ash and particulate matter. Good thing we still mask. Even so, it's nightmarish. But apparently, being gone today was a good thing, because all hell seems to have broken loose in this town. I swear to god, repeated COVID infections have friend everybody's brains and completely destroyed any semblance of impulse control. While we were gone [but unbeknownst to us, heading our way, so it's a good thing we came home the back way], two police chases, one apparently involving some dipshit driving a giant RV, ploughing through town and eventually, it seems, winding up in a field? And then a shooting on the south end, involving road closures and inconsistent reports of orders to shelter in place and a hospital lockdown anyway and, as I understand it, the helicopters are still circling over the foothills looking for the guy.

This is why we stay home.

That, and the fact that there's always so much to do, and there's still so much I have get caught up on now.

I am so tired.

And of course, all that expense to come means that we still need shares, and we most definitely still need sales, several grand's worth of sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered. Which means I have to get caught up on the work somehow. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priorities, needed for Miika, are 3-4 pairs of the fly traps [the second item on the list]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

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