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If spring here teaches you anything at all, it's that there's always another storm waiting. And it's as like to be symbolic as it is to be literal, because this is one of the most expensive times of the year here.
With quarantine and closures, that's not going to get better anytime soon.
We're going to have to raise the scratch for the field work: turning, discing, tilling, reseeding, planting, etc. It's going to cost. And we're still waiting to find out what we owe in taxes; I'll have to pay 2019 plus quarterly 2020. Also horse and dog vaxes next week (and farrier work on Miika's laminitic left front this week), all expensive. On top of that, there are a lot of folks needing help right now. Around here, "trickle-down economics" is a nasty practical joke, a deadly mockery. We're better positioned than most, but relative to the rest of the rez, not to the colonized county whose scratch never makes it to the people whose land they've stolen. We have to help our communities, but we can't do it by ourselves.
This is the season of the year I hate most. For me, it's always been pure misery on the physical front, and now that my airways are so badly shot, it's worse yet. I'm having a lot of trouble with that right now, and the autoimmune pain just makes everything that much worse. I'm very slow, and very far behind, and I have so much to do that I can't get to in the course of a day, so I'm shortening all the rest to the essentials. the short version is that we need to make sales; we need to bring in enough to cover taxes; we need to be able to help folks up front now until our gardens are in and yielding, at which point we can give food, too. And I need to buy more fabric and materials, but I can't take on that whole burden, either.
Also, over the course of last week, I featured, on his site, some of his most valuable (and highest-priced) works. If we could sell them all, we could sock 90% of it into savings and be assured of making it through the rest of the year and into the next, barring disaster. I don't actually have any real hope of doing that, but if you're one of the folks who's been looking at these works and thinking that someday you might want to invest the money in one or more? Now would be the time; it would help ensure our survival through this pandemic and likely to the first of next year, and help us to be able to help other folks in our community here who are going to need it badly. So please, this week especially, share all of our links, because while we're all in isolation? Income is already at virtually nothing, and we can survive the isolation, but not the inability to feed the maw of all the bills. The links are here:
Note: For now, please don't buy anything off the Amazon wishlist; to do so would be crossing a picket line, and some of their workers have struck this morning to fight for safer working conditions because their lives are being put at even greater risk during this pandemic. If you find one of the items elsewhere, wonderful (I found a lovely convection bread machine with a GF setting via Crate and Barrel online, but I can't justify the cost, at least not now; we haven't had anything like the kind of sales that would permit that), but for the duration of the strike, please don't buy anything off the list from there. That said, if you can find Wings's KT tapes anywhere else? He uses those virtually every day, and we're almost out; that would save us having to go out and buy them locally, in person and at higher cost.
Other than that, please share everything. Thanks.
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