Return of the light, indeed.

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This year's winter solstice ain't playin'. The dawn sky was flawlessly clear, not a mark anywhere on it save the last fading stars; return of the light, indeed. By 8 AM or so, that had all changed, but those aren't clouds. Oh, no, every single mark, line, puff in the sky now is from the crisscrossing contrails, diffusing in the cold upper atmosphere.

And sucking every drop of water out of it in the process.

The chemtrail nonsense is just that — nonsense. But contrails do actually deepen an existing drought.

And it's much too warm; I've been outside without a jacket multiple times now. It's depressing, and it's dangerous, and it's hard to get into any kind of holiday spirit with the way the land looks now.

I'm so far behind on everything to do wit it [and everything else, too]. And yesterday as apparently the last straw for my body to be able to cope; I'm in full crash now, and feel absolutely terrible, and I'm guessing that won't change for weeks now, because I've had to push everything too far. Right now, we're just looking forward to the holiday, because it means we finally get a little time to relax just a little bit.

Now, if only I had someone to put up our electric farolitos on the deck, because I learned the hard way last year that I can't do it anymore. I certainly couldn't do it this year. And I miss them, but there's nothing I can do about it, absent a volunteer.

We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things would have been off in a few days when the payment clears, were it not for the thieves that shoved our account into negatives. But even aside from that bullshit, there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here before we know it [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [somebody got the vacuum! which makes priorities now the thermos and the rugs];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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