The vultures are gathering now.

Photo copyright Aji, 2020; all rights reserved.

The vultures are gathering now.

Small animals are dying in this drought along with the land, and the giant raptors circling daily, looking for another meal. On a day like today, when we've already hit that rarest of highs for us, 100 degrees, they're about the only thing busy out there now. Unfortunately, we larger creatures may not be far behind the small ones, or the land, if this country can't get itself under control. 

The drought is killing us. The pandemic is killing us more. I'm up against the wall, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. As I said yesterday, things are frankly desperate, and I don't know what to do.

I paid our first quarter taxes out of my Patreon, which basically wiped it out. I have to pay the second quarter by Wednesday, and we don't have it. We also got another of biannual bill in the mail yesterday, one I forgot about. January and July suck, because some stuff comes due in those months that we can forget about the rest of the year. And there are still all the OTHER things to pay for this month, and I can't. I need to bring in about $1,500 by Monday, and thanks to two sales yesterday, we're about 2/3 of the way there, but I also need to bring in another $1,500 over the following two weeks. We've jettisoned everything we can. We bumped reseeding to winter, which turns out to have been a good move, because this drought would kill it all. The well? There's no way we can get in August's drilling queue. None. I've given up on that. I don't know whether we'll be able to do it before next year; if we can't, we can't reseed, either, and probably can't plant again in the spring. Plumber's canceled, again. Chimney cleaners are canceled. Medical appointments? Oh, that's funny. NOPE. Nothing gets done until I get this month covered, and I'm still 2 grand from being able to do that.

WE. NEED. SALES. BADLY. New piece just the other morning, here. Lots of other new works, too, cuffs and earrings and one new necklace. So please. Share the links; they're here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here;
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

[Also, the wishlist is back in force. There are things I absolutely cannot get except through Amazon, and I can't add that stress onto all the others now. It's breaking me.] Please share everything. Thanks.

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