Catkins, puppies, and more on the new platform. Sales, shares, and spreading around the new platform link very much needed.

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Beautiful day today, with an distinctly unseasonal high of 61. Winds for a while this afternoon, but clear and relatively calm for parts of the day. The place was, as usual now, overrun by puppies from elsewhere, but everyone seems to be mellowing a little bit. We avoided a vet visit for Shade for now; fingers crossed that she starts improving again.

The big news for now is, as I said last night, that I've finally gotten my crowdfunding platform launched on my site! The overall goal is my $25K+ in emergency medical bills, but for now, I'm trying to raise an initial $1,700 to take care of two specific bills: the local ambulance and the hospitalist's fee. We're $135 of the way toward it. A caveat: I have a lot of kinks to get worked out yet, but PayPal is now theoretically linked to the progress meter on the site. I say "theoretically," because I've just discovered that I apparently have to set up at least one other page to make the subscription "purchase" possible. Eventually, if you subscribe via PayPal (it's a monthly thing like Patreon), it will show, although for now the only way to do it is to hit the PayPal "Subscribe" button. I'm hoping to get that figured out and fixed tomorrow. I also need to figure out how to pin it to the main page, so for now, the only way to access it is here. Please share this link around on social media and elsewhere.

I still have to fix dinner, in addition to other work. I got a few chores caught up today, but I have a lot more to do tomorrow chores. I also have to get some items packed for shipping (apologies, all, for the delay; the start of this week, with Monday's events, set me way, way back). So here are the links: 

• Tonight's post elsewhere (the catkins are here);
• A way to buy me coffee (which actually goes to She-Wolf's & my medical bills);
• Wings's direct PayPal link;
• Wings's site, for sales;
• Wayfair gift cards, to replenish all the furnishings that the RV has destroyed in one way or another.
• Partial registry #1, from Bed, Bath and Beyond. There are new kitchen-y things on it now, stuff that I didn't realize we'd need to replace (either because the RV ruined it or because we gave it away when we had to downsize).
• Partial registry #2, from Wayfair. There are some things left on both registries that I thought by now I might be able just to buy outright, but medical bills (mine and She-Wolf's both) have to come first.

Please check out the new platform, share the links, get your friends to participate. I've got a long road ahead of me, just in terms of diagnosis and, I hope, eventually treatment. Being able to pay off the medical bills will go a long way toward keeping me as healthy as possible in the meantime. Thanks, everybody, from both of us.

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