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This is the first time Louis has stayed more than three or four days; he seems to be settling in the for the duration (yes, I know it's a "Lewis's" woodpecker to the white world, but we don't honor that colonizer in this household, so he gets my f-i-l's name instead). The wild creatures are converging here, early, late, and out of season entirely.
It will give us company of the best kind during this period of isolation. And ours is almost full isolation now; one more errand tomorrow morning, the one final must-do on Tuesday, which we were planning to take care of today, but that pesky medical one was in the way (and is now over). Tuesday's is the bureaucratic nightmare, and it has to get done before we can go to ground. After that, I hope we don't have venture out for anything at all for at least a full month. That's rhetorical, of course; there will be scrips to refill and mail to pick up and bills to pay and taxes to get done. But we plan to leave here as little as humanly possible in the kind of world we have today. As far ahead as we're able to see and anticipate, we're mostly ready. But it's going to get very ugly out in the world. Lest anyone think this doesn't hit close to home, we have a family member dependent on a ventilator. What happens to him?
But those bills still have to get paid, and no one's offering to whack our monthly payments for utilities and the medical loan and other stuff. Capitalism is alive and well and taking full advantage, so I have GOT to bring in more income. On top of the pressures that accompany Wings's dental work, it's going to be costly for other reasons. Between the tow and the garage bill, we had to shell out $700 cash that I had already allocated for other expenses. That's $700 on top of the regular bills for the month, most of which are due this week. Another $300 for medical and prescription costs already this week. There was another $350 yesterday we weren't expecting (someone here who needed help badly), and some of that we will get back, either in repayment or in kind, but probably not for a long while, and it's still a HUGE hit out the door at once, in cash. And a couple of other folks who needed help (and we are mostly tapped out on that front; we have helped, with cash, an unusually high number of people since the first of the year, and we're not going to be able to do that anymore, because at the rate the bad things just keep coming, what we have now might have to hold us for the year). So I have to make up well into four figures' worth fast, which means I've got to start bringing in some scratch from sales, subscriptions, everywhere and anywhere I can, especially since we don't have a fix on Wings's recovery time from all this slated for next week. There's a major new piece up, linked in Friday's post, that goes perfectly with yesterday and today's pieces, also linked below this one. Please share them, because we need help to make sales. The links are here:
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