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My latest flowers from Wings: not wild, but beautiful all the same. Unfortunately, we have almost no wildflowers this year, and the rain projected for this week and next? Suddenly vanished from the forecast this morning. It's hot and the air is hazy with smoke, and the world is a scary place.
Meanwhile, people need to survive. The land needs to survive. I'm not sure how the garden will make it. I'm not sure how we do, for that matter. As I've said, my monthly budget is blown; when elders need help (and they need it badly now), you give it, and that's what we've done twice this week already. On top of that. Wings picked up the mower for the fifty-billionth time last week, and that's another ~$300 or so down the tubes. One thing the high heat and drought managed for us, at least, was keeping the mosquitoes at bay for a while, but it's cooled off enough that they're back, and the grass has to get cut, no matter how much brown there is in it. We can't afford to risk West Nile here. We're already flooded with tourists spiking our COVID-19 numbers locally, and in the adjacent county just west of us are the state's first two plague cases of the year, one of them already fatal (and only 20 years old, too). I need to bring in another grand in sales to cover all of this unexpected outlay; I'm not quite half-way there, so one more large or two medium-sized sales would do it.
[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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