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It looks so beautiful. It causes so much trouble.
Pollen everywhere, and in icy cold gale-force wind to send it even further. Today, though, we have clouds again, and supposedly will get rain and snow tomorrow, so that may tamp it down a bit. It helps for the allergies, but it's hell on my subluxed hips. The whole lower half of my body is subluxed right now, since when one major joint system moves out of place, everything connected to and through it does, too. So I'm gimpy today, and in a great deal of pain that nothing touches.
Speaking of so much trouble, shit got real locally last night. The town leadership is finally showing some belated signs of taking this pandemic seriously: They've canceled ALL public events and gatherings, even the local farmers' market, at least through Labor Day, and are considering instituting a curfew.
These are necessary, and should've been handled weeks ago. But what it means for Indigenous folks here is that there will NO economy for us. No tourism, no art markets, no ability to sell. Most of our clientele has moved to online patronage now, so we are hit less hard than most. But the three sales we've had so far this year? That might be all we get. We'll be fine for a while, having stocked up on food and supplies and firewood and so forth. But the bills still have to get paid, and honestly? If we don't start making some sales soon, I don't know how we survive the year.
Three sales are not going to keep us alive, and we still have taxes and other expenses to pay. Just to cover all of the outgo over recent weeks, I need to bring in about $5,000 fast; I've got to make sure we can get through the rest of the year. So please share all of our links, because while we're all in isolation? Income is already nothing, and we can survive the isolation, but not the inability to feed the maw of all the bills. Also, I added some new items to the wishlist, so that breakfast is less boring, and so that I can make bread without the altitude destroying it. Oh, and I also added candles and a set of essential oils for our diffuser back on, because we're going to have to cancel the plumber AGAIN, so there's no fixing the mildew problem until we can reschedule, which may be months out yet; the candles and diffuser help deal with the smell. Why cancel? Because in his spare time, he was an instructor at the Ski Valley. You know, where a person who should never have been traveling by then in the first place went and exposed everyone. There are some other new items on there, too, things that have always been sort of on my mental wishlist but I cold never justify the indulgence (waffle iron, bread machine). Now they're much less indulgent, given that we're going to be here for a very long while, and bread would be nice occasionally (and so would waffles).
Speaking of sewing, I'm just waiting for the filter materials to arrive now, and then I can start making masks. Here I can think of at least four facilities that can use them: IHS; our own doctor's office, which is a certified community health care center (and, last I knew, nearly out), the local urgent care center, and the local hospital. We'll also distribute them to folks who need them here, because literally no one is wearing them in town, and that's deadly. Thereafter, I'll use it for our mending and alterations and sewing for tradish purposes.
Meanwhile, I have to get cracking on our taxes, so there's been a lot more outlay, with a lot more yet to come. As I keep saying, we need sales, very badly. The links are here:
Please share everything. Thanks.
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