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No, it's not a goose egg, or even duck's egg. It's a turquoise chicken egg from one of our Americaunas. And yes, it's almost three and a half inches long. Talk about your unexpected gifts.
Nothing else is cooperating so much. The wind is howling and shrieking and gibbering outside the door. Normally, this house is too airtight to hear it, but not today. And my body has decided to crap out on me with another episode this morning, a bad one. Apparently there is something in one of my supplements that's setting it off, at least if I don't have much food in my stomach. But these are terrifying, and all the more so because I know what a danger it would be to have to go to the hospital now. I'm tired and wrung out and irritable and scared, because that's what these things always do. And for those of you minimizing what COVID19 victims are feeling? what I get with these episodes is a transient taste of it. Imagine that kind of terror unabated, for days on end, while you can't breathe and don't know whether you're going to survive.
Beyond that, my concern is the bills. Sales are nonexistent. I need to bring in about $4K to feel confident of getting through whatever's waiting for us with this pandemic. We've spent far more than we would ordinarily have done over the last
And so the $700 for the vehicle stuff last week and the $300+ for medical and the unexpected need to help some other folks and the costs for the farrier, the hay, and the discing of the land to prep for reseeding this year are all combining to set us back a great deal. To add to it, we've had three sales total all year. Yup, 3. That's not going to keep us alive, and we still have taxes and other expenses to pay. At this point, I need to bring in about $4K in sales, subscriptions, Ko-fi, any source possible just to cover all of that. So please share all of our links, because while we're all in isolation? Income is going to be next to nothing otherwise, 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 because I'm going to have to return to sewing (supplies, mending, etc., and eventually maybe other stuff for local folks). Oh, and I also added candles 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 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.
Speaking of sewing, a huge thank-you to whomever took the sewing machine off the wishlist the other night. I've started the process of keeping up my end of the bargain, and the elastic bands and filter layers for making medical masks are already ordered and on the way. 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. Thereafter, I'll use it for our mending and alterations and sewing for tradish purposes.
Meanwhile, I paid the last three bills for the month yesterday, and next week, I have to get cracking on our taxes, so there's been a lot more outlay, with a lot more yet to come. We need sales, very badly. The links are here:
Please share everything. Thanks.
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