Dying before our eyes.

Photo copyright Aji, 2020; all rights reserved.

I'm about to hit a wall. I can feel the crash coming, but there's nothing I can do about it except try to ride it out as best I can. It happens when I'm this far overextended, and this summer has been absolute hell.

So much illness, death, grief, loss. Every week, someone new. The dogs. The land, dying before our eyes (that elm in the photo should be green for another 6 weeks yet). Even a tiny woodpecker the other day. So many people out of work because of the pandemic, unable to keep their heads above water. We're trying to keep everything alive and going, and losing the battle (and have spent an ungodly amount of money in the attempts to help besides).

We're also trying to keep the pups alive, but a feral big brother is making that hard. We always knew, with the ferals, what the probabilities were; the real shocker is that it's Cricket who's still here. But with the tiny terrors, you would think the 10 acres around the house would be enough range room. You would be wrong.

While I was in the shower (and thus unaware and also unable to help) Wings let them out for about the fourth time this morning, and turned to fill their water dish a few feet away. ::Poof:: gone. They had followed Cricket to the north corner, and by the time he got there (acres away), they had followed him through the hole he'd tunneled under the fence, and were on Piñon Road.

We can't have that. We also can't chase them every minute, nor can they be confined, with what we have now, to prevent it. We need this, but by the time you get shipping added, we're looking at close to $500, and we also can't afford it. So if you'd like to kick in to keep the two little monsters safe and, well, alive, you can do it via the PayPal link below. Because right now?  I'm having to leash them and take them out every time, which means I'm getting NO work done, and we can't afford that, either.

Wings has a bunch of new work out, too.  Check out the Bracelets and Rings Galleries on the site; five new entries in the latter, and a couple new cuffs in the former, with another one to follow shortly. There is also a lot on the wishlist that is urgent, particularly fly spray, his KT tape, the cleaning supplies to deal with the plumbing fallout, and the air purifiers, because this is the first day I've been able to breathe at all in weeks, thanks to the constant smoke (and the inability to breathe is complicating my health severely in all kinds of ways now). 

The links are here:

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

[Obviously, 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.] Please share everything. Thanks.

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